Resources

Recommended Books:

• "Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids", by Durbin et al., Cambridge University Press.

• "Understanding Bioinformatics", by M. Zvelebil and J.O. Baum. Published by Garland Science, 2008.

• "Bioinformatics algorithms: an active learning approach", by Phillip Compeau and Pavel Pevzner. Published by Active Learning Pub.

• "Inferring Phylogenies", by Joseph Felsenstein.

• "Genome-Scale Algorithm Design", by V. Makinen, D. Belazzougui, F. Cunial and A. Tomescu, Cambridge University Press, 2015.

The above books are recommended but not required. In addition, a number of research papers will be discussed.

How to read a Research Paper

• Slides