Formulate linear and integer programming problems for solving commonly encountered optimization problems. Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within ...

Programming Background: The course involves solving programming assignments in Python. You must be comfortable with Python programming. This includes basic control structures in Python: conditional ...

Before BLAST, alignment programs used dynamic programming algorithms, such as the Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman algorithms, that required long processing times and the use of supercomputers ...