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This is an archived file from the Spring 2022 version of the course.
See the current course website for a more recent version.

Class 2: Genomes

24 January 2022

Slides The slides from 24 January class are here: class2.pdf Some links to materials for the class: J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid [PDF]. Nature, 25 April 1953. (Also read: Sexism in science: did Watson and Crick really steal Rosalind Franklin’s data?, The Guardian, 23 June 2015.) F. Sanger, S. Nicklen, and A. R.

Class 1: Life

19 January 2022

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: 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.

Course Registration Survey

17 January 2022

Please submit this survey if you are enrolled in the class or wanting to join the class:

https://forms.gle/u1rktru9nGiLrtxYA

Before completing the survey, you should read the Syllabus and Course Pledge.

Course Slack

14 January 2022

You can join the course slack (with any @virginia.edu email address) by visiting: https://join.slack.com/t/computingbiology/signup.

We won’t expect students to be on the course slack until the first class (Wednesday, Jan 19 at 12:30pm), but feel free to join early!

(If you want to join but don’t have an @virginia.edu email address, contact the course instructor.)

Computer Science Background

27 December 2021

Here is a guide to the computing theory background expected for students entering this course. If you’ve completed cs2150 and a good Theory of Computation or Algorithms course (the official pre-requisites for this course) and remember the big ideas from that class, this should all be familiar to you already, but it may still be useful to refresh your understanding using these materials. If you haven’t taken the prerequisite courses and are getting up to speed on your own, we hope these materials will be helpful.

Welcome

30 October 2021

This is the course website for “Computational Biology / Biological Computing”, a new University of Virginia course targeted to undergraduate computer science students that will be offered for the first time in Spring 2022. Scheduled course meetings are Mondays and Wednesday, 12:30pm – 1:45pm, in Olsson Hall 018, starting on 19 January 2022. This course will look at connections between computing and biology, with a focus on DNA. It will include computational methods used in biology focusing on how computing can be used to analyze and design DNA, as well as opportunities to use biological substances and ideas to compute.

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