``Biology is so digital, and incredibly complicated, but
incredibly useful …It is hard for me to say confidently that after fifty more
years of explosive growth of computer science, there would still be a lot of
fascinating unsolved problems at peoples’ fingertips, that it won’t be pretty
much working on refinements of well-explored things. Maybe all of the simple
stuff and the really great stuff has been discovered.
It may not be true, but I can’t predict and unending growth. I can’t be as
confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500
years of exciting problems to work on … ''
Excerpt from an interview with Donald
Knuth given at the Computer Literacy Bookshop, December 1993
CS 8803: ALGORITHMS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Instructor: Prof. Alberto Apostolico
Office Hours: Tue 1:30-2:30 or by appointment
CCB 133 - axa@cc.gatech.edu
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~axa
FALL 06 Class Meeting: Tuesday Thursday - Time: 12:05 pm - 1:25 pm - Room: Cherry Emerson 322
Course Scope and Contents - Tentative
Syllabus - Sources