42 KAM Mathematical Colloquium
Prof. MICHAEL WATERMAN
University of Southern California
A NEW APPROACH TO DNA SEQUENCE ASSEMBLY
June 1, 2001
Lecture Room S6, Charles University, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha
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10:30 AM
Abstract
This lecture will cover computational aspects of DNA sequencing. Although
this problem has been studied for 25 years, it continues to receive attention.
As with many problems in computational biology, this work is at the intersection
of molecular biology, biotechnology, statistics and computing. The
basic outline of most compuational approaches has three steps: overlap,
layout, and consensus. The sizes of the projects have dramatically
increased recently with one already famous attempt to sequence the entire
human genome in ``one pass''. This has made apparent limitations
of the current methods. Along with the standard methods, another quite
different computational approach based on Eulerian graphs will be described.
