Welcome! This is the homepage of the course Discrete Computational Biology. Parts of this course are also included in the Bioinformatics - starting course.
Course material
- Book 1: An introduction to bioinformatics algorithms, Jones and Pevzner, ISBN 0-262-10106-8. The book can be bought at (e.g.) Adlibris or Bokus.
- Book 2: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson, G.J. Sussman, 2nd ed, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.
NOTE: Available in HTML-format from the book homepage: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
- DrRacket: Programming environment for LISP/Scheme: http://racket-lang.org/
NOTE: Language -> Choose Language -> Legacy Languages -> Pretty Big.
Practical information
The lectures and the labs will be held by prof. Jan Komorowski, Nicholas Baltzer and Klev Diamanti.
LISP
We will be using Scheme (Racket) dialect of LISP. You can read a WIKI article about Scheme or visit its homepage at MIT. Here you can access iTunesU webcasts of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs lectures taught by Brian Harvey at Berkeley.
Good luck and we hope you find this information usefull!
Additional materials (if you are interested in Scheme after the course)