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| Date | Topic | Video | Extra Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/4/25 | Welcome to CS 181! | video | slides |
| 9/9/25 | Intro to Alignment | video | slides |
| 9/11/25 | Global Alignment + Scoring Schemes | video | More Notes |
| 9/16/25 | BLOSUM Matrices | video | |
| 9/18/25 | Local Alignment | video | Khoi's Notes |
| 9/23/25 | Affine Gap Alignment | video | |
| 9/25/25 | Alignment + Graph Theory | video | |
| 9/30/25 | Dijkstra's Algorithm | video | Ashley's Notes |
| 10/2/25 | Topological Sorting | video | |
| 10/7/25 | Languages + DFAs | video | |
| 10/9/25 | Regex + Intro to KMP | video | Regex slides |
| 10/14/25 | KMP Algorithm | video | Ashley's Notes |
| 10/16/25 | Failure Function | video | Khoi's Notes |
| 10/21/25 | More KMP + DFA Algorithm | video | |
| 10/23/25 | Suffix Trees + Intro to BW Transform | video | Burrows-Wheeler slides |
| 10/28/25 | BW Transform + Intro to Phylogenetic Trees | video | Ashley's Notes |
| 10/30/25 | Midterm! | ||
| 11/4/25 | More Phylogenetic Trees + Intro to UPGMA | video | |
| 11/6/25 | UPGMA Algorithm | video | Phylogeny Slides |
| 11/11/25 | Neighbor-Joining Algorithm | video | Ashley's Notes |
| 11/13/25 | Parsimony + More Phylogeny | video | |
| 11/18/25 | Intro to HMMs | video | |
| 11/20/25 | HMMs Continued | video | HMM Slides |
| 11/25/25 | HMM Learning Problem + CpG Islands | video | |
| 12/2/25 | HMM Applications | video | |
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