* Biology Meets Programming: Bioinformatics for Beginners

** Week 1  
  
*** DNA replication

**** Origin of replication (ori)
    
     Locating an ori is key for gene therapy (e.g. viral vectors), to introduce a theraupetic gene.
     
**** Exercise: computational approach to find ori in bacteria
     
     We'll look for the *DnaA box* sequence, using a sliding window, in that case our code would be the following:
     
    #+begin_src python
      count = 0
      
for i in range(len(Text)-len(Pattern)+1):
        if Text[i:i+len(Pattern)] == Pattern:
          count = count+1 
      print(Pattern + ": " + count)
    #+end_src 

*** Vocabulary
      - k-mer: subsquences of length /k/ in a biological sequence