
Conserved Sequences: Their Biological Significance, and the K-mer ...
Feb 24, 2018 · By comparing genomes which have a certain conserved sequence common to them we can easily identify anomalies, any exist. Finding Conversed Sequences with K-mers. …
Sequence Motifs, Consensus Sequences and The Motif
Feb 27, 2018 · As such, we define what is known as the consensus sequence for a set of sequences. Given a set of sequences, a consensus sequence (also called canonical …
Synteny Blocks, Genetic Rearrangements and Synteny Block …
Feb 16, 2018 · Synteny blocks are conserved regions within two sets of chromosomes. In other words, they are identical stretches of nucleotides on two different chromosomes. Lets take an …
Hidden Markov Models | CommonLounge Archive
Oct 3, 2017 · Let O be the random variable over its observations, also known as the output sequence. Graphically, the system at time steps {1, …, T} can be seen as follows: Parameters …
Recursion | CommonLounge Archive
Recursion. March 21, 2019. Recursion is a very important and powerful idea in computer science and algorithms. A problem can be solved recursively if it can be reduced into smaller similar …
DNA and Protein: What they are, and what role do they play?
Proteins as a sequence of characters. Each of the 20 amino acids that proteins are made of have a 3-letter as well as a 1-letter abbreviation, as shown in the following table. Hence, we can …
Block Ciphers and Modes of Operation | CommonLounge Archive
Jan 17, 2018 · DES is a Feistel cipher with a 64-bit block size and a 56-bit key. Due to (legitimate) concerns about the security of a 56-bit key, it became common to run a plaintext through three …
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks
The paper proposes a general and end-to-end approach for sequence learning that uses two deep LSTMs, one to map input sequence to vector space and another to map vector to the …
Introduction to Genome Assembly | CommonLounge Archive
Dec 20, 2017 · Genome assembly can be thought of as solving a 1-dimensional jigsaw puzzle with the reads as individual pieces of the puzzle. This 1-dimensional genome puzzle can be …
Graham Scan: O(n log n) convex-hull algorithm
May 25, 2017 · Consider each point in the sorted array in sequence. Let the current point be X. Add X to the convex hull. Look at the last 3 points in the convex-hull, and determine if they …