Statistics for Bioinformatics

Julie Dawn Thompson is a Senior Scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research with expertise in theoretical bioinformatics, data mining, knowledge engineering, integrative bioinformatics and genomics, (LBGI) Stochastic Optimization and Nature inspired Computing (SONIC)

PART I: Fundamental concepts 1. Introduction 2. Multiple sequence applications

PART II: Traditional multiple sequence alignment methods 3. Heuristic approaches 4. Statistical approaches 5. Objective functions 6. Alignment benchmarks

PART III: Large-scale multiple sequence alignment methods 1. Efficient methods for multiple alignment of complete genome sequences 2. Efficient methods for multiple alignment of 1,000’s of sequences 3. HPC implementations 4. Alignment quality analysis