CMP 243 Homework 0

Due/do: right away

Here are some things you need to do to get started in this class.

  1. If you haven't yet, register for the class asap.
  2. If you filled out a form for a computer account, take this form to Heidi Sitton in Applied Sciences Room 149 between 8 and 5 Monday, Tuesday or Thursday, or leave it in her box on another day, to get your account set up.
  3. Drop off your questionnaires in my box at the CS board office (2nd floor of Applied Sciences) if you didn't return it in class.
  4. Read the article on Entrez by Schuler et. al and the article on "the new genomics" by Lander, which I handed out the first day of class. If you didn't get a copy, further copies are available in the file drawer across from the board office in the CMP243 folder. Extra copies of the other handouts and optional reading material will be put there as well.
  5. Lydia will lecture on basics of molecular biology next Tues. and Thurs. To prepare for her lectures, if your background is not in this area you should read Chapter 7 ("A tour of the Cell") and Chapter 16 ("From Gene to protein") from the book Biology by N. Campbell and Chapter 1 ("The building Blocks") from Introduction to Protein Structure by C. Branden and J. Tooze. These books are on reserve in the Science Library. A master xerox copy of each chapter is also available in the CS handout file drawer, from which you can make your own xerox copy (Don't steal the master!). You can also read the equivalent material in other texts, some of which are also on reserve.
  6. Get on the web and look around. Play around in Entrez and other sites offered by NCBI. There are links to a lot of things starting from the class page as well. For CSE students, read some of the on-line intros to Molecular Biology. Look at Chuck Wilson's class pages (find this under the "www pages for other bioinformatics courses" link). Find one intro written for the DOE Human Genome Project under the class page on bibliographic resources. (I'm not giving an explicit link here to force you to explore a bit.) Also read Dick Karp's summary of genomics for CS students, lecture 1 of his Fall 96 class at the University of Washington.
  7. Buy the text and read chapter 1. There is a lot of math in the text (see the Appendix as well.) If you need to, go back and review your probability and statistics! The book A first course in probability by S. Ross is a good refresher. It is on reserve. Other upper division undergraduate probability and stats books would also do (Grad texts would be even better. The other Ross book on reserve is closer to the grad level.)
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