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About the Course

Once we have sequenced genomes in the previous course, we would like to compare them to determine how species have evolved and what
makes them different. In the first half of the course, we will compare two short biological sequences, such as genes (i.e., short sequences of
DNA) or proteins. We will encounter a powerful algorithmic tool called dynamic programming that will help us determine the number of
mutations that have separated the two genes/proteins. In the second half of the course, we will "zoom out" to compare entire genomes, where
we see large scale mutations called genome rearrangements, seismic events that have heaved around large blocks of DNA o...
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Top reviews

AH

Aug 18, 2016

A very well taught course that gives you the ins and outs of sequence comparision and introduces chromosme rearrangement analysis in a succint manner. This was

TF

Dec 24, 2016

Take your time, this course is harder than the others. Very worth it though, learned a lot and it was a lot of fun!

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By Yudi,Tian

May 19, 2019

I think I will need some pseudocode in stepik interactive material to complete the code challenge. some part still too confused to me

By Linbo Z

Jul 10, 2017

I think Week 4 and 5 should be explained more. Pseudo-code can be more detailed.