• Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Fall, 2001
• Lecturer: Prof. Hsueh-I Lu
• Time: 2PM-5PM, Wednesday. Classroom: Room 101, Department building of CSIE
• Prerequisites: (a) Data Structures, (b) Algorithms. Solid background in biology is welcome but not required for taking this course.
• We will study fundamental algorithms related to bioinformatics based on the following course materials:
  • "Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences --- Computter Science and Computational Biology", by Dan Gusfiled, 1997
  • "Computational Molecular Biology --- An Algorithmic Approach", by Pavel A. Pevzner, 2000
  • RECOMB Proceedings
  Roughly 80 percent of lectures by the lecturer, and 20 percent of student presentations.
• Homework 1, Homework 2, Homework 3.
• Slides and scribed notes.
• Final presentation.
• Midterm problem set.
• Midterm grades and final grades.
• Possible sources for papers to be presented:
  • Conferences: RECOMB, WABI, BIBE, ISMB (I am not sure whether the proceedings of ISMB are available on-line. See the conference pages for 2002 and 2001.)
  • Journals: Bioinformatics, Journal of Computational Biology Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Other sources: see the bibliography of the textbooks.
• Join the mailing list called 'bioinfoalg@coollist.com' by filling out this form, and you will automatically receive the broadcasting messages of this course.
• An alternative webpage for this course, created by Garfield Hwang. This page contains a BBS system where we can discuss things about this course.
• Interesting URLs:
  • Conferences related to computational biology. ECCB2002 CG 2001
  • An interesting online course with videos and lecture notes on Algorithms offered by MIT (jointly for Singapore).
  • DNA from the Beginning
  • Primer on Molecular Genetics.
  • Discovering the Double Helix, an online lecture by Jim Watson, who discovered the double helix structure of DNA.

Number of accesses since August 11, 2001.
FastCounter by bCentral