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<P><STRONG>Algorithm Design and Complexity Course</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>7-11 July 2008, Oxford</STRONG><A href="http://bioinfomsc.stats.ox.ac.uk/subjects/ADC.html">http://bioinfomsc.stats.ox.ac.uk/subjects/ADC.html</A></P>
<P><STRONG>Oxford Bioinformatics Programme, Oxford University</STRONG></P>
<P>Professor Peter Jeavons, from the Computing Laboratory at the University of Oxford, leads this course addressing the new computational challenges which arise from biological data and the more effective and efficient algorithms which are urgently needed to tackle them.</P>
<P>This course covers:<BR>The Algorithm Design Process <BR>Problems - Specifications - Algorithms <BR>Efficiency: time and space complexity, Big O notation <BR>Searching in Sequences/ Comparing Sequences/ Molecular structure <BR>Boyer-Moore and Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithms, Heuristics: Blast and Fasta <BR>Dynamic Programming, Statistical Alignment, Hidden-Markov-Models <BR>Multiple sequence alignment <BR>Secondary structure prediction, determining structure, Predicting structure <BR>Feasibility <BR>Appropriate technology, Moore’s Law <BR>NP Problems, NP-completeness, examples </P>
<P>The standard cost of the course is £1350. There is a substantial discount available to members of academic institutions and the NHS, which reduces the cost to £945.</P>
<P>To book, or for more information, contact <A href="mailto:bligh@stats.ox.ac.uk">bligh@stats.ox.ac.uk</A> or visit our website: <A href="http://bioinfomsc.stats.ox.ac.uk/subjects/ADC.html">http://bioinfomsc.stats.ox.ac.uk/subjects/ADC.html</A></P>
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