Cheng Soon Ong and Gunnar Rätsch will give a tutorial on Kernel Methods for Predictive Sequence Analysis at the German Conference on Bioinformatics.

The tutorial is meant for a broad audience: Students, researchers, biologists and computer scientist interested in (a) an overview of general and efficient algorithms for statistical learning used in computational biology, (b) sequence kernels for the problems such as promoter or splice site detection. No specific knowledge will be required since the tutorial is self-contained and most fundamental concepts are introduced during the course.