Alignment Basics, Local and Global Alignment, DOT Matrix Analysis, Scoring System, Evolutionary Matrices (PAM, BLOSUM), PSSM, Dynamic Programming: Smith-Waterman and Needleman-Wunsch Algorithms, BLAST & FASTA Algorithms, Statistical Significance, PSI & PHI Blast.
MSA Basics, MSA Scoring: Entropy & Sum of Pairs Method, Multi dimensional Dynamic Programming and Progressive Alignment Method, ClustalW/X tool.
The phylogeny problem, Tree Basics & Topology, Ultrametric property, Tree Reconstruction Methods (UPGMA, NJ, Parsimony & Maximum Likelihood), Boostrapping,
Perl variables and Data types (Scalar, List, Array and Hash), Default variables, Conditional Expressions, Iterations, Subroutines, File handling, Regular expressions, References, Anonymous data types, Perl-CGI, Perl Modules and Packages, basic arithmetic calculation, string function, mathematical and time function
OOPs Concept, BioPerl Module, Object & Classes, Implementing Bioperl Modules, CPAN Library.
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