School of Computer Science
Tel Aviv University
October 2003 
Computational Genomics
0382.3102.01
     http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~rshamir/cg/03/index.html
Course Requirements

Prerequisites

The course is open to students who have a third year standing in Computer Science, and also to graduate CS students.
No prior knowledge in biology is needed. The required background will be given during the course.

Home assignments

There will be several (probably 5-6) home assignments and an in-class final exam. The assignments will serve as a piecmeal take home exam. Solutions should be done independently by each student and without help from others. Use of books and articles for the solutions is allowed and will not affect the grading, but the sources should be noted in the solutions. Assignments are a mixture of theoretical, web-based and programming work. Most assignments contain built-in bonus, so by completing some 90% worth of all exercises you will be given full score.

Scribes

Possibly, for those lectures that are missing updated class notes, one or two volunteers will be asked to  scribe (i.e., to prepare lecture notes) the lecture. The notes should be prepared in LATEX   and returned to the TA within a week after the lecture. They will be corrected by the TA or the lecturer, and then revised by the student and returned in final form within five days after the students were informed of the corrections. Notes should contain all the material presented in class, written in clear and accurate fashion, as well as the relevant references. Using figures and diagrams when necessary in order to clarify things is recommended.

Final Grade

Non scribers: 50%  assignments + 50%  final exam.
Scribers: 40%  assignments + 20% scribe  + 50%  final exam

Scribe grade will be reduced by one point (out of the maximum of 20) for each late day past each of the two deadlines. This is done in order to ensure that scribes are completed and made available to the whole group promptly.



Ron Shamir

2003-10-29