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Markov chains, or HMM, is a statistical random model for predicting future status. It is widely used in bioinformatics, genome annotation, voice recognition and weather forecast. It estimates the probability of next status based on the current available datasets. Less

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Uhhhhhh I work in the core. It varies.

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I suggested code testing and code coverage. They did not like this. The answer they wanted was; a statistical analysis of the results to show that the differences were 'good enough' and therefore justified updating the code. Less

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BLAST is a sequence searching tool using query sequence(s) to find similar sequences in a database(subject). It uses statistics to give the matched sequences a number of parameters such as similarity, score, e-value, gap number. It is applied in bioinformatics to get homologous sequences. Less

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Gather data, and perform ML. The interviewer was looking for a high-level approach to the question. Instead of path-planning, etc. they wanted "gather data." Less

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Because I am a dinosaur.