(2004-05, Spring Semester)

• Presentation lecture for week 9 been brought forward to Tuesday (29th March), from 9 - 11 PM (Singapore time). Venue will remain the same at Videoconferencing Room.
• No class on Tuesday, 22nd March and Thursday, 24th March (MIT Spring break)
• There will be four presentations on March 17th. The research papers have been posted on the schedule page. Please indicate if you wish to present a paper by noon on Thursday, 10th March.
• Research Paper presentations start next week (March 3rd). See this page for an outline of what is expected from a presentation. Every student has to prepare at least one question during the presentation and submit it by e-mail to sma5513@comp.nus.edu.sg.
• [Update Wed 23 Feb at 2:15 PM] Problem Set 2 posted yesterday had a small bug in the function logSumExp0 in the file hmm_tlp.c. The bug has been fixed and updated in the zip file. You can download the PS2 zip file again or just download the fixed .c file.
• Problem Set 2 is out.
• Problem Set 1 is out.
• No class on Tuesday (8th Feb) and Thursday (10th Feb) on account of Chinese New Year.
• Welcome! The first class will be held on 3rd Feb (Thursday). Refer to the Schedule for the detailed schedule and assigned readings.
• The semester starts officially on 1st February.

This course introduces the basic computational representations and algorithms for molecular biology. It also introduces and uses biological data sources available on the World Wide Web. The topics include algorithms for processing biological sequences and structures, as well as microarray data, e.g., dynamic programming algorithms for sequence alignment, algorithms for structural superposition, microarray data analysis.

The format of the course consists of weekly reading of research papers, core lectures, student presentations of research papers, small programming assignments, and a final programming project.

  Reading & Writing

• Efficient reading of papers in science and technology by M.J. Hanson &  D. McNamee.