An Overview of the Algorithmic Session of MCCMB'05

Abstract

Genome analysis. This is a most classical bioinformatics topic that includes problems of local and global alignment of genomic sequences and related issues. Grigory Kucherov (LORIA, France) gave a talk on a general method for computing the sensitivity of seeds (small patterns used to spot potential local similarities), and more specifically “subset seeds”, a new concept of seeds. Inna Dubchak (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA) described the VISTA system which is a software system that features several useful programs of genome alignment and analysis.