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Further information about the course is given on the main course web page.
The IT Programme offers a Bioinformatics Specialisation.
Wikipedia has a brief overview of biology.
The complexity of the informatics challenge in the human genome project is illustrated through an analogous problem in computing in "The human genome project and informatics" by Karen A. Frenkel.
The economics of working with petabytes of scientific data are addressed in these s lides by Malcolm Atkinson, Director of the UK's National e-Science Centre.
The article "Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century" by John K. Ousterhout (designer/developer of the Tcl scripting languages) contains some interesting opinions on the growth of scripting languages and their relationship to system programming languages like C, C++ and Java.
The value of Perl and UNIX pipelines in Bioinformatics is illustrated in the article "How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project" by Lincoln Stein.
Open source programming in bioinformatics is supported by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation.
I am interested in supervising student projects (exjobbs) in the areas of Bioinformatics and Databases (local access only).