CS 5984: Algorithms in Bioinformatics

Fall Semester, 2002
Other Resources

Basic Course Information

• See the Bioinformatics Courses poster.

• Our textbook:
  Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach
  Pavel A. Pevzner, MIT Press, 2000.

• Find out what is on reserve in Newman Library.

Related Courses

• See the web site for the companion course --- PPWS 5984: Biological Paradigms for Bioinformatics.

• You can see the Algorithms in Bioinformatics web site for Fall, 2001 and the Algorithms in Bioinformatics web site for Fall, 2000.

• Also see the web site for the course CS 6104: Computational Biology.

• A self-study course in Perl was taught during Spring, 2001; Perl will be useful tool for the homework in CS 5984.

NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information

• NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information

• BLAST searching in NCBI databases

• Retrieve stand-alone BLAST executables.
  Be sure to look at the README for stand-alone BLAST.

• The NCBI Software Development Toolkit includes source code for tools developed at NCBI, including source code for their version of BLAST.

• NCBI references for BLAST and PSI-BLAST

• Search for relevant journal articles in PubMed, the bibliographic database of the National Library of Medicine.

Biological Information Sources

• Some resources related to the genetic code are available.

Additional Course Materials

• Some material on interval graphs is available.

Biological Sequence Comparison

• Some resourses on FASTA are available.

• Some resourses on BLAST are available.

• Some resourses on analyzing sequence statistics and algorithms are available.