CMP 243 Homework 0

Due/do: right away

Here are some things you need to do to get started in this class.

  1. Register for the class asap, today if possible. We can't get a bigger classroom until the official enrollment is large. Currently it is 6. Ask me (again?) by email if you still need a permission code.
  2. If you filled out a form for a computer account, make sure it is for a guest account for this quarter on the "barnyard" machines oink, moo and quack. Take this form to Heidi Sitton in Applied Science Room 137 between 10AM and 4PM on Monday to get your account set up.
  3. Drop off your questionnaires in my box at the CS board office (2nd floor of Applied Sciences.) If you didn't get one to fill out, extra copies are available in the file drawer across from the board office in the CMP243 folder. Extra copies of the other handouts are there too: course description and synopsis, Tooze chapter on proteins, Campbell chapter on the central dogma, Science paper on Methanococcus jannaschii, and Chapter 1 of the text.
  4. Get on the web and look around. Play around in Entrez. There are links to a lot of things starting from the class page as well. For CSE students, read some of the on-line intros to Molecular Biology. Find one intro written for the DOE Human Genome Project under the class page on bibliographic resources. (I'm not giving an explicit link here to force you to explore a bit.) Also read Dick Karp's summary of genomics for CS students, lecture 1 of his class at the University of Washington (find this under the "www pages for other bioinformatics courses" link). Finally, if you want to get a postscript version of Chapter 1 of the text, follow the class link "text and reserve books" and click on "postscript". See me for the login and password.
  5. Check out the books on reserve in the Science library. Doolittle book has chapters on most of the major databases and sequence analysis programs. Read the chapter on Entrez. I'll put a "master" xerox copy in the file drawer in Applied Sciences, and on reserve. Also, for CSE students, Lydia recommends reading chapter 7 of Campbell, "a tour of the cell". Again, I'll make a master xerox available as well.
  6. Go back and review your probability and statistics! Chapter 1 of the text is dense. (It is really more of a mathematical appendix for the text, I think). You don't need to read the sections marked with the special "math triangle". We'll be getting to this material starting in week 2.
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