Bioinformatics Contest 2019 with Alexey Sergushichev and Gennady Korotkevich

The third Bioinformatics Contest took place in February 2019.

Alexey Sergushichev, one of the organizers of the contest, and Gennady Korotkevich, the 1st prize winner, join me to discuss this year’s problems.

Timestamps and links for the individual problems:

• Qualification round
  • 00:07:14 Bee Population
  • 00:14:12 Sequencing Errors
  • 00:30:20 Transposable Elements
• Final round
  • 00:41:35 Cancer and Chromosome Rearrangements
  • 00:56:01 Epigenomic Marks
  • 01:10:02 Bacterial Communities
  • 01:27:06 Minimal Genome
  • 01:34:56 Endangered Species

Links:

• The contest problems on Stepik
• The final scoreboard
• Episode #18: Bioinformatics Contest 2018

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