The GNA-VSNS Biocomputing Course, which is currently in progress
on the Internet, wishes to announce the availability of the
transcript of a BioMOO guest lecture by
Dr. William Pearson,
Department of Biochemistry,
University of Virginia, USA.
You can find the transcript at the URL:
http://www.gene.cinvestav.mx/bcd-session4.html or
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/PrwAli/
Lectures95/LectBPearson.hml
Dr. Pearson commented on a new version of the FastA program (v. 2.X)
that includes score statistics and an eventual Smith-Waterman alignment.
He also discussed new results regarding FastA 2.X and Blast comparisons
using different substitution matrices (these results have just been
accepted for publication in "Protein Science").
Student's questions centered on issues regarding FastA and Blast use, and
search strategies to find homologous sequences to a query in databanks.
We thank Dr. Pearson for patiently answering all questions !
The session was part of the weekly meeting of Francisco De La Vega's
study group. Altogether, 32 students and 7 instructors from all over the
world are currently engaged in the course, covering the basics of Sequence
Analysis. Both Bill Pearson's and Francisco's connections to BioMOO were
initiated from the Aspen Center for Physics workshop "Patterns in
Biological Sequences", which was held at Aspen, CO, USA (May 29-June 11, 1995).
More information about the VSNS Biocomputing Division is available at the URLs:
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/welcome.htmlhttp://merlin.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu:8001/bcdusa/welcome.htmlhttp://www.ist.unige.it/bcd/welcome.html
Kind Regards,
Francisco M. De La Vega
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Assistant Professor NEW Tel:(525)747-7000
Dept. of Genetics and Molecular Biology ext. 5355
CINVESTAV-IPN, A.P. 14-740, E-Mail:
Mexico D.F. 07000, Mexico fvega at gene.cinvestav.mx
URL:http://www.gene.cinvestav.mx/fmv.html
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