What is Pevzner's central idea in computational biology?
My central idea is that biological systems can be understood and analyzed as computational problems. I approach biological questions, from DNA sequencing to evolutionary inference, by abstracting them into their core combinatorial structures, such as strings or graphs. Then, I design algorithms to efficiently solve these structures. This algorithmic perspective allows us to move beyond descriptive biology and develop predictive, quantitative models of biological processes and their evolution.
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