Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge the following people for their help during the writing of this thesis:

Dr. David Haussler (for being my primary advisor)

Dr. Harry Noller (for also giving useful advice and assistance)

Don Fong (for writing part of the parser)

Leslie Grate, Richard Hughey, Kevin Karplus, Gary Stormo, and Saira Mian (for providing general computer and biology information)

The Biology and Computer Science departments (for the use of their facilities)

And last but not least, Martha Michel and my parents (for providing sanity)