CIS 410/510 Bioinformatics |
| Introduction | ||
| Hunter93.pdf | "Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists", by Larry Hunter (Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology, MIT Press, 1993). | |
| Pairwise Alignment | ||
| Giegerich96.pdf | "Pairwise Sequence Alignment", by Robert Giegerich and David Wheeler. | |
| Multiple Alignment | ||
| Phillips00.pdf | "Multiple Sequence Alignment in Phylogenetic Analysis", by A. Phillips, et al, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 16(3), 2000. | |
| Phylogenetic Trees | ||
| treeterm.pdf
treebuilding.pdf |
"Trees and Their Terms" and "Introduction to Tree Building", excerpts from Molecular Evolution: A Phylogenetic Approach, by R. Page and E. Holmes, Blackwell Science, 1998. | |
| Martin99.pdf | "Mosaic bacterial chromosomes: a challenge en route to a tree of genomes", by William Martin, BioEssays, 1999. | |
| Huelsenbeck02.pdf | "Potential Applications and Pitfalls of Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny", by John Huelsenbeck, et al, Syst.Biol. 51(5):673–688, 2002. | |
| Gene Finders | ||
| Burge98.pdf | "Finding the Genes in Genomic DNA", by Christopher Burge and Samuel Karlin, Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 1998. | |
| Haussler98.pdf | "Computational Genefinding", by David Haussler (long version of paper from Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Supplementary Guide to Bioinformatics, 1998) | |
| National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) | ||
| http://ncbi.nih.gov | Home page. | |
| Science Primer | An introduction to the field of bioinformatics and short papers on genomics, phylogenetics, and other topics covered in this course. | |
| ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes | FTP directory of complete genomes. | |
| Bioinformatics Applications | ||
| Phylogeny Programs | A list of phylogenetic inference applications, maintained by Joe Felsenstein at the University of Washington. | |
| CLUSTAL X | Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic inference using the neighbor-joining method. | |
| Treeview X | Program to display phylogenetic trees; runs on Mac (including OS/X), Unix, Windows). | |
| Programming Languages | ||
| Programming Languages Examples Alike Cookbook | Code examples from the Perl Cookbook, with some examples shown in other languages. | |
| WWW C++ Information | A great set of links put together by Bernd Mohr, former postdoc in Al Malony's lab. | |
| C/C++ Reference | Quick reference guide to C++ STL (caveat emptor). | |
| Perl Mongers | Unofficial Perl home page; lots of links to on-line info. | |
| PHP Home Page | Downloads, manuals, .... | |
| MySQL Home Page | Downloads, manuals, .... | |