Sequence alignment algorithms form the foundation of comparative genomics, structural biology and evolutionary studies by identifying regions of similarity among nucleotide or protein sequences.

On the 27th of June 2025, M.Sc. Nicola Rizzo defends his PhD thesis on Indexable Sequence Graphs: Exploiting Uniqueness in the Pangenome Era. The thesis is related to research done in the Department ...

Two computer scientists found — in the unlikeliest of places — just the idea they needed to make a big leap in graph theory. This past October, as Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg were thumbing through a ...

A puzzle that has long flummoxed computers and the scientists who program them has suddenly become far more manageable. A new algorithm efficiently solves the graph isomorphism problem, computer ...

In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...