Discussion at last week's seminar seemed to suggest some of us would be interested in knowing a bit more about biology. A course I took last semester, "Computational Biology for Computer Scientists", given by Gene Myers, featured a whirlwind tour of genomic biology in the first couple of weeks. The course materials are at
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-8/sp03/materials.html and the scribe notes for Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, and to some extent Day 5 deal with biology. Ruchira Datta http://math.berkeley.edu/~datta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit the Mathematics of Phylogenetic Trees webpage: http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/classes/290/fa2003