While Dr. Oscar Moreno is out of town I'm giving 3 lectures in his bioinformatics class at UPR-RRP.

My students gave me homework, defining bioinformatics, and explaining why computer science is needed.

I gave the genes-for-geeks talk August 31, 2006.

I'm borrowing Dr Rafael Irizarry's ENAR03 lecures for September 5, 2006. This class was postponed until the 7th because of the student assembly. Please look at slides 31-77 of Part A of the lecture.

Finally, I'll give an introduction to finite field models of gene expression on September 7, 2006 (this lecture postponed until October 10).

References:

1. Ortiz-Zuazaga, H., Avino-Diaz, M. A., Laubenbacher, R., Moreno O. Finite fields are better Booleans. Refereed abstract, poster to be pre- sented at the Seventh Annual Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2003), April 10–13, 2003, Germany. (PDF)
2. Moreno, O., Ortiz-Zuazaga, H., Corrada Bravo, C. J., Avino-Diaz, M. A., Bollman, D. A finite field deterministic genetic network model. Submitted to the fifteenth conference on Applied Algebra and Error Correcting Codes (AAECC-15), May 12–16, 2003, Toulouse, France. (PDF)
3. Ortiz-Zuazaga, H., Avino-Diaz, M. A., Corrada Bravo, C. J., Lauben- bacher, R., Pena-de-Ortiz, S., Moreno O. Applications of finite fields to the study of microarray expression data. Submitted to the 11th Inter- national Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2003), June 29 to July 3, 2003, Brisbane, Australia. (PDF)