Why it matters

Bio algorithms have massive impact. Understanding shapes application areas.

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The architecture

Sequence alignment.

Genome assembly.

Phylogeny.

Structure prediction.

Bioinformatics algorithm areasAlignmentNW / SW / BWAAssemblyde Bruijn / OLCPhylogeny + structuretrees + foldingAlphaFold + BWA + Bowtie + SAM tools are workhorse implementations
Computational biology.
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How it works end to end

Dynamic programming foundation.

Graph algorithms for assembly.

Deep learning for folding (AlphaFold).