Lecture 1: Introduction

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Overview of the challenges of Molecular Biology Computing

What is Bioinformatics?

The huge dataset problem

Database searching by similarity

Pairwise and multiple alignment

Structure-function relationships

DNA sequencing

Phylogenetic analysis

Genomics - the bioinformatics of microarrays.

The Biologist in the Age of Information

Computational Tools for Molecular Biology at NYU-MC

Use the Web for Sequence Analysis

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Using Computers for Molecular Biology
Stuart M. Brown, Ph.D., RCR, NYU Medical Center

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