<p />Algorithms for Bioinformatics, Metagenomics

Assessment of Common and Emerging Bioinformatics Pipelines for Targeted Metagenomics

Targeted metagenomics, also known as metagenetics, is a high-throughput sequencing application focusing on a nucleotide target in a microbiome to describe its taxonomic content. A wide range of bioinformatics pipelines are available to analyze sequencing outputs, and the choice of an appropriate tool is crucial and not trivial. No standard evaluation method exists for estimating the accuracy of...

Graph Drawing Algorithms for Bioinformatics

Graph drawing has recently received growing attention as various techniques have been developed for applications in areas ranging from software technology to business modeling, from network administration to cognitive sciences. Recently, we have designed and realized the tool yWays to support the analysis of biochemical pathways by visualization. In the talk, we will use this tool as a example ...

Metagenomics and Bioinformatics in Microbial Ecology: Current Status and Beyond

Metagenomic approaches are now commonly used in microbial ecology to study microbial communities in more detail, including many strains that cannot be cultivated in the laboratory. Bioinformatic analyses make it possible to mine huge metagenomic datasets and discover general patterns that govern microbial ecosystems. However, the findings of typical metagenomic and bioinformatic analyses still ...

Algorithms in Bioinformatics II Summer Semester 2005 , Center for Bioinformatics

Memetic Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an exciting research field for memetic algorithms (MAs). Its core activity is the integration of techniques from Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics to address challenging computational problems related with the analysis of large volumes of data. Due to is huge relevance as a means to understand biology in the 21st Century, this field has attracted the attention of ma...