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           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
         (SF = Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King's College Road)

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                              THEORY SEMINAR
              SF1105, at 3:00 p.m., Thursday 15 October 1992

                              Jose Fernandez
           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

                  "Some Computational Issues in Biology"

The nature of research in Modern Biology is becoming more and more
mathematically oriented.  In particular, some of the newer problems in
Molecular and Evolutionary Biology have an intrinsic computational nature.
This talk will bring up some of these computational problems.  We will
informally describe the problems of generation of Evolutionary Trees,
prediction of protein 3D structure, and string matching and database
searches in the biological context; we will concentrate in some more detail
on the problems involved in the Human Genome Project, the multi-billion
dollar project to map the whole human genetic sequence.

Disclaimer: This talk will be an informal introductory presentation of the
subject, meant for all computer scientists (not necessarily theoreticians).
It is based on my notes from the 2nd SIMS Tutorial on Genomic Analysis,
which was held last August at DIMACS (Rutgers University).