CS 5984: ALGORITHMS IN BIOINFORMATICS
OTHER RESOURCES

Basic Course Information

• Advertisement for bioinformatics courses taught during Fall, 2001.

• See the Bioinformatics Courses poster as well.

• Our textbook:
  Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology by Daniel M. Gusfield, Cambridge University Press, 1998

• Find out what is on reserve in Newman Library.

Lecture Materials

• Some lecture notes are available.

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, 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.

Miscellaneous and Fun

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