February 4 (Wednesday) -- Khalid Sayood (Electrical Engineering)

Structure in DNA Sequences

In this talk we examine several different approaches to looking for structures in DNA 
sequences which provide clues to how the information in DNA is organized.  We also show 
how this process of discovery has resulted in a the development of tools for fragment 
assembly, phylogenetic analysis and the discovery of regulatory structures.

Reference:

Otu, H. and K. Sayood (2003a) A divide-and-conquer approach to fragment assembly. 
Bioinformatics 19(1): 22-29.

Otu, H. and K. Sayood (2003b) A new sequence distance measure for phylogenetic tree 
construction.  Bioinformatics 19(16): 2122-2130.