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Presents a variety of methods for assigning function to biological sequences, emphasizing biologically informed algorithm design. Covers a variety of topics, including low- and high-throughput sequencing history and methods; multiple classes of sequence alignment problems (one-to-one, multiple alignment, alignment of a few sequences to a database, and alignment to a reference genome); interpreting sequence alignments; discovery of patterns in sequences; and visualizing data.