Bioinformatics Challenges at the Interface of Biology and Computer Science

Preface x

Acknowledgements xvii

About the companion website xviii

PART 1

1 Introduction 3

1.1 Overview 3

1.2 Bioinformatics 3

1.2.1 What is bioinformatics? 3

1.2.2 The provenance of bioinformatics 4

1.2.3 The seeds of bioinformatics 5

1.3 Computer Science 7

1.3.1 Origins of computer science 7

1.3.2...