Schedule and Readings
Before 4:59pm Friday, 21 January:
- Join the Course Slack
- Read the Syllabus, Pledge, and complete the Registration Survey.
Before Monday’s class, 24 January:
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Read Chapters 1 – 10 of Hubert’s The DNA Book (the chapters are very short, 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 account information that will be sent to the course slack.
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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 will be out next week and due on Sunday, 6 February.
Slides
The slides from class are here: class1.pdf
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.
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My talk on What Biology Can (and Can’t) Teach Us About Security. USENIX Security Symposium 2004.