… something about the introduction, cells as computers in soup
the first major concept is sequence alignment.
- some amount of setup, but basic concept is that you work a lot with really long, non-delineated strings in biology (DNA!)
- as an example, we can often use our understanding of existing genes and proteins to understand the function of new genes that look similar — but for this we need some way to define “similar”
- this is sequence alignment
move from bio → cs…
- machinery here is variations on the theme of longest common subsequence