RUTCOR Colloquia - October 21, 2004
Speaker: Giuseppe Lancia
Affiliation: University of Udine, Italy
Title: A journey through Computational Biology (with an eye to Combinatorial Optimization Problems) - Part II
Time: 1:30 - 2:15 PM
Location: RUTCOR Building - Room 139, Rutgers University, Busch Campus,
Piscataway, NJ
Abstract: Computational (Molecular) Biology has emerged in the past few
years as an established new branch of Computer Science, at the border with
Combinatorial Optimization, Statistics and, of course Molecular Biology. This
field provides researchers with a wonderful opportunity of new exciting
problems to work on. Furthermore, it provides "mathematical programming people"
with a large set of optimization problems on which they could try their standard
techniques. The use of O.R. techinques for Computational Biology problems has
steadly increased in the last few years. In this talk I'll survey some of the
problems on which these techniques have proved successfull. In particular, I
will address problems related to:
- Alignment of genomic sequences
- Evolutionary distances between species
- Protein fold comparisons
- Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms.
No prior knowledge about molecular biology is required (although it would
certainly help!) as the required concepts will be introduced in the context of
the specific problems.
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