Lecture 1, 04/09/07, tue In today's lecture, after some general information on the course, we briefly discussed the question "what is bioinformatics?". Important concepts include: - three types of computing devices: computers, brains, cells - computational molecular biology vs. biomolecular computing Resources: - Baldi, Brunak: Bioinformatics - The Machine Learning Approach. MIT Press, 1998 (Ch. 1) [Available in the ICICS Reading Room]