Schedule and Readings
Before 8:59pm Wednesday 24 August:
- Read the Syllabus, Pledge, and complete the Registration Survey.
- After you submit the Registration Survey, you will receive an invitation (to the github account you include in your survey) to join the course github site (which will enable you to join the github discussions).
Before Tuesday’s class, 30 August:
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Read Chapters 1 – 10 of Hubert’s The DNA Book (the chapters are very short and interesting, so its not as much as it sounds). To access the early version of this book that we have access to, you will need the login information from github discussions. (This link will work after you have joined the course github site, see above.)
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Read Chapter 3 (at least through the end of 3.8) of Bioinformatics Algorithms: How do we assemble genomes?. (This will be the focus of the first project, which is due on Monday, 5 September.
Slides
The slides from class are here: Class 1: Life
Some links to materials for the first class:
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Koshland’s Seven Pillars of Life, Science, 22 March 2002.
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Lavoisier’s letter to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1787.