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 round00:07:14 Bee Population

00:14:12 Sequencing Errors

00:30:20 Transposable Elements

Final round00:41:35 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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