INTRODUCTION Occupational hazards have existed since the beginning of technology and they have always been considered part of the job. At the present time a different idea and a modern concept about the importance of each individual's health among the working class, has brought about a transcendental change in labour legislation. However, the workmen's compensation laws are not effective enough...

I n teaching biology, there may be a tendency to concentrate too much on the descriptive aspects of the subject. A well-rounded education in the biological sciences also requires experience in the gathering and statistical analysis (interpretation) of quantitative data from field or laboratory studies. There are numerous mathematical tools and computer programs to help us do this today. Introdu...

Bibliography 81 Preface These are the lecture notes from CSE 527, a graduate course on computational molecular biology I taught at the University of Washington in Winter 2000. The topic of the course was Biological Sequence Analysis. These notes are not intended to be a survey of that area, however, as there are numerous important results that I would have liked to cover but did not have time.