CS-5045

Computation for the Life Sciences

Fall 2003

Quick Info

The course developes the background needed by graduate students pursuing the bioinformatics option or the Ph.D. in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology but not having a computer sceince background. Fundamentals of computer science discussed and practiced include Linux, data, and the importance of command line interface; the Perl programming language; program design, implementation, and testing; basic data structures, algorithms, and algorithm analysis.

We shall use the following text:

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics. James Tisdall, O'Reilly, 2001.;
A Practical Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms. 2nd edition. Clifford A. Shaffer, Prentice Hall, 2001.

If you have questions, come and see me in 632 McBryde every Monday 10-12. If you cannot make it, please send me e-mail to arrange for a mutual aggreeable time.

For detailed information please consult the syllabus ( PDF).

Homework

Please check the list of assignments.

asandu@mtu.edu (Adrian Sandu)
http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~asandu/Courses/CS5045/CS5045.html