Welcome to the BioComputing Hypertext Coursebook

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      The following set of tutorial texts has been developed for the award-winning VSNS-BCD BioComputing Courses, aimed at a mixed audience of biologists, computer scientists, and students + researchers of related areas, on a late undergraduate / graduate level.

      • Ch. 0. Introduction, by David L. Steffen, October 1996.

      • Ch. 1. Pairwise Sequence Alignments, by Robert Giegerich and David Wheeler, May 1996. (**)
        Postscript version, Part 1, Postscript version, Part 2.

      • Ch. 2. Networking, revised edition, by David L. Steffen, June 1999. (**)
        Ch. 2. Networking, 1996 edition, by David L. Steffen, October 1996. (**)
        Appendix to Ch. 1+2: FastA/Blast Exercises, by Francisco M. De La Vega, May 1996.

      • Ch. 3 Multiple Alignment, by Georg Fuellen, July 1996. (**)
        Self-assessment questions have finally become available in April 2001.
        Postscript Version (mostly color). Postscript Version (mostly black&white). A Resource Page is available, too.

      • Ch. 4. The Mathematical Basis of Molecular Phylogenetics, by Andreas Dress, July 1995.
        Postscript Version.

      • Ch. 5. Genetic Algorithms and Protein Folding, by Steffen Schulze-Kremer, June 1996. (**)
        Postscript Version

      (**) indicates the availability of Exercises incl. a solution sheet, the URL for which is available by subscribing at https://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mailman/cgi/unibi/listinfo/vsns-bcd-solutions.

      Related Resources.

      • Syllabi of related Courses.

      • Training programs in bioinformatics and computational biology at the International Society for Computational Biology.

      • University Bioinformatics Programs, listing at Indiana University's BioTech site.

      • Sequence analysis with distributed resources.

      • Glossaries: Pairwise and Multiple Alignment, and Networking.

      • Carlos Setubal and Meidanis' Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology.

      • Mike Waterman's Introduction to Computational Biology.

      • Bibliographies on Biocomputing, and related areas.

      • How it all started: Draft Unified Master Outline, and valuable feedback, by Mykol Larvie.

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