From mdw at purdue.edu  Mon Mar  3 14:14:30 2008
From: mdw at purdue.edu (Mark Daniel Ward)
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:14:30 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] planning a graduate course on Perl and bioinformatics
Message-ID: <47CC7846.4060903@purdue.edu>

Dear Purdue Perl Mongers,

Greetings!  This is Mark Daniel Ward from the Statistics Department.  During spring 2009, I plan to teach a graduate course on Pattern Matching, including some algorithms and analysis.  Since I'm in STAT, this will be a STAT 598 course, but I will definitely encourage participation from folks in other departments, for instance, Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.  My course should (hopefully) have an interdisciplinary appeal.

I'm still trying to determine the texts, but the current things I'm looking at include:

O'Reilly books:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mperlbio/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/blast/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/seqanalyian/

I'm also looking at some other books (from publishers besides O'Reilly!) that have similar topics.

I'm also considering an academic book:
Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences, by Dan Gusfield
http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Strings-Trees-Sequences-Computational/dp/0521585198/

I would appreciate chatting with any of you, if you have some opinions or advice about this graduate course that I'm designing.  Please feel free to drop me a note, and we could meet about this.  I would love some input here!  Thank you in advance!

I have two children (ages 1 and 4) at home, so I rarely stick around Purdue in the evenings; I'm sorry that I can't hang around on Tuesday evenings for Perl Mongers!

Mark




From westerman at purdue.edu  Mon Mar 10 08:57:31 2008
From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:57:31 -0400
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Meeting tomorrow, Mar 11th?  Is it to be held?
Message-ID: <47D55A6B.4080209@purdue.edu>

    I suspect that Spring Break does not affect most of us, but are we 
having a meeting tomorrow?   I've managed to forget about it until now 
and don't have anything prepared :-(    No one has updated the web site 
(of course this is a co-operative effort) and so I suspect that no one 
else has anything ready to present.   I'm willing to skip the meeting.

    BTW: For those who have not heard, Dave Jacoby has found gainful 
employment outside of Purdue (hurray!, since his 1-year term here was 
rapidly drawing to a close) and thus will probably not be able to make 
the meetings unless we push them back an hour or so.


-- 
Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the 
Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department 
of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive 
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR 
building

From westerman at purdue.edu  Mon Mar 10 13:59:03 2008
From: westerman at purdue.edu (Rick Westerman)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:59:03 -0400
Subject: [Purdue-pm] No meeting tomorrow, Tuesday Mar 11.
Message-ID: <47D5A117.9000900@purdue.edu>

Spring Break.  No meeting tomorrow, Mar 11.  See you next month!

-- 
Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the 
Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department 
of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive 
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR 
building