Course Overview

Course Overview for CS447 (Subject to change)

Class URL:	`http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~cytron/cs447/`
Instructor:	Ron Cytron (cytron@cs.wustl.edu)
	Office	525 Bryan
	Phone	935-7527
	Office Hours	Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30-Noon walk-in, or by appointment
Instructor:	David States (states@ibc.wustl.edu)
	Office	700 South Euclid Ave
	Phone	362-2135
	Office Hours	Tu/Th 11:30-Noon, Jolley 542
Textbooks, available in the campus bookstore:	Dan Gusfield: Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences : Computer Science and Computational Biology Durbin, Eddy, Krogh, and Mitchison: Biological Sequence Analysis : Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Optional references, available from amazon.com :	Waterman: Introduction to Computational Biology Chapman and Hill, 1995. Gonick and Wheelis: The Cartoon Guide to Genetics HarperPerennial, 1991.

Anyone found cheating on any graded assignment will receive an "F" for this course; other actions may be taken.
On the date that an assignment is due, the assignment must be submitted by the beginning of class.
Lateness policy: Assignments are due as advertised; late work is not accepted.

Exam 1 20% There will be two in-class exams. Although books and notes may be used, all work turned in must be done in-class.

Exam 2 20%

Quizzes: 20% On the class prior to a quiz date, 6 questions will be published. On the quiz date, one of these questions will be given as a ten-minute, in-class, closed-book quiz, with the question chosen by throw of a die.
Six such quizzes are planned for this semester.

Homeworks: 20% Five homework sets will be assigned.

Final Exam: 20% A comprehensive test of the semester's material.

Last modified 15:55:33 CDT 09 September 1999 by Ron K. Cytron

Anyone found cheating on any graded assignment will receive an "F" for this course; other actions may be taken. On the date that an assignment is due, the assignment must be submitted by the beginning of class. Lateness policy: Assignments are due as advertised; late work is not accepted.
Exam 1	20%	There will be two in-class exams. Although books and notes may be used, all work turned in must be done in-class.
Exam 2	20%
Quizzes:	20%	On the class prior to a quiz date, 6 questions will be published. On the quiz date, one of these questions will be given as a ten-minute, in-class, closed-book quiz, with the question chosen by throw of a die. Six such quizzes are planned for this semester.
Homeworks:	20%	Five homework sets will be assigned.
Final Exam:	20%	A comprehensive test of the semester's material.