Contents

1. Biology in a Nutshell 2. Words 3. Word Distributions and Occurrences 4. Physical Mapping of DNA 5. Genome Rearrangements 6. Sequence Alignment 7. Rapid Alignment Methods: FASTA and BLAST 8. DNA Sequence Assembly 9. Signals in DNA 10. Similarity, Distance, and Clustering 11. Measuring Expression of Genome Information 12. Inferring the Past: Phylogenetic Trees 13. Genetic Variation in Population 14. Comparative Genomics.