This page will be updated on a weekly basis. The purpose of this topic is to provide a general introduction to Bioinformatics with a view to preparing students for the topics that follow. An understanding of the issues and questions raised in this topic will give us a much better perspective of the methods and tools described in subsequent topics. Comparisons are very important when one is searching for matches of a given query sequence against a large database of sequences.
Additional reading see at the end of each lecture Web sites as covered in the tutorials.