DNA Analysis: Principles and Sequencing Algorithms

Veronika Abramova, Bruno Cabral, Jorge Bernardino

2016

Abstract

DNA discovery has put humans one step closer to deciphering their own structure stored as biological data. Such data could provide us with a huge amount of information, necessary for studying ourselves and learn all the variants that pre-determine one’s characteristics. Although, these days, we are able to extract DNA from our cells and transform it into sequences, there is still a long road ahead since DNA has not been easy to process or even extract in one go. Over the past years, bioinformatics has been evolving more and more, constantly aiding biologists on the attempts to “break” the code. In this paper, we present some of the most relevant algorithms and principles applied on the analysis of our DNA. We attempt to provide basic genome overview but, moreover, the focus of our study is on assembly, one of the main phases of DNA analysis.

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Abramova V., Cabral B. and Bernardino J. (2016). DNA Analysis: Principles and Sequencing Algorithms . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-201-1, pages 245-250. DOI: 10.5220/0006084102450250


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@conference{ecta16,
author={Veronika Abramova and Bruno Cabral and Jorge Bernardino},
title={DNA Analysis: Principles and Sequencing Algorithms},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={245-250},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006084102450250},
isbn={978-989-758-201-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2016)
TI - DNA Analysis: Principles and Sequencing Algorithms
SN - 978-989-758-201-1
AU - Abramova V.
AU - Cabral B.
AU - Bernardino J.
PY - 2016
SP - 245
EP - 250
DO - 10.5220/0006084102450250