Advanced Mathematical Bioinformatics

This course begins with a brief review of some of the areas of probability and statistics needed for applications to bioinformatics problems. Typical problems addressed by bioinformaticians are identifying functionally different parts of a genome, searching DNA or protein databases to find sequences which are functionally similar to a given query sequence, or inferring the relatedness of different species by measuring the similarity of their genomes. The course will cover the mathematical theory behind algorithms commonly used by biologists and also give examples of current research. Note: This is an Honours Pathway Course. It emphasises mathematical rigour for a range of advanced Bioinformatics topics.