Class Four - Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Lecture

* Discuss Chapter 5: Searching for motifs, more file I/O, more string manipulation, regular expressions, counting nucleotides, and array manipulation
* Exercises at end of Chapter 5

Homework

* For the week of November 12: Read chapter 6 & 8; note, unless there is strong demand for it, we will skip chapter 7
* Try to do as many of the exercises at the end of Chapter 5 as you can; not to be turned in, just to discuss in class; students may be asked for their ideas on each exercise.