Princeton University
Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 492
Special Topics in Computational Molecular Biology

Richard Lipton

Spring 1999


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Course Summary

Our main goal is to examine computational biology issues from the viewpoint of computer science. We will focus especially on DNA computing, a new method of using DNA experiments to perform digital computations, and we will study both the potential and the difficulties of making DNA computations work in practice. Other topics will include sequencing, protein structure, and sequence homology, with emphasis on the computer science aspects and their relation to recent new results on approximation algorithms.

Administrative Information

Lectures: TTh 1:30-2:50, Room: TBA

Professor: Richard Lipton - 311 CS Building - 258-4646 rjl@cs.princeton.edu

Undergraduate Coordinator: Tina McCoy - 410 CS Building - 258-1746 tmhill@cs.princeton.edu

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