The VSNS BioComputing Hypertext Coursebook has just been updated !
Take a look at either one of our WWW sites:
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/welcome.htmlhttp://www.biotech.ist.unige.it/bcd/Curric/welcome.htmlhttp://merlin.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu:8001/bcd/Curric/welcome.html
Table Of Contents
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Ch. 0. Introduction, by David L. Steffen
Ch. 1. Pairwise Sequence Alignments, by Robert Giegerich and David
Wheeler (**)
Ch. 2. Networking, by David L. Steffen (**) (UPDATED Oct 12)
Appendix to Ch. 1+2: FastA/Blast Exercises, by Francisco M. De La Vega.
Ch. 3. Multiple Alignment, by Georg Fuellen (**) (incl. a list of WWW
Resources) (UPDATED July 26)
Ch. 4. The Mathematical Basis of Molecular Phylogenetics, by Andreas
Dress
Ch. 5. Genetic Algorithms and Protein Folding, by Steffen
Schulze-Kremer. (**)
(**) indicates the availability of Exercises incl. a solution sheet.
Our Hypertext Book includes a small glossary at
http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/BCD/bcdgloss.html
and a Java-based Multiple Alignment "Hyperlattice Path" Visualizer, at
http://oleander.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de:8080/java/biomoo/visu.html
"Biocomputing For Everyone" WWW Pages are currently being finalized.
We will still try to add some improvements, and will announce
updates on the list vsns-bcd-curric, to which you can subscribe by
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We'd like to thank our sponsors for their generous support:
the Research Group in Practical Computer Science, University of
Bielefeld,
the Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany
(Stifterverband fuer die Deutsche Wissenschaft), and
GNA's Virtual School of Natural Sciences. We'd also like to thank
David Steffen and Paolo Romano for enabling the mirroring service.
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best wishes,
georg
fuellen at dali.Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE,
fuellen at Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DEhttp://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/techfak/persons/fuellen/georgF.html