program

1.

Basic Conceps of Molecular Biology (Riccardo Velasco);

1.1

Proteins and amino acids. Nucleic Acids: DNA and RNA;

1.2

The Mechanisms of Molecular Genetics;

1.3

How the Genome is Studied;

2.

Sequence Comparison (Romeo Rizzi);

2.1

Comparing Two Sequences;

2.2

Extensions to the Basic Algorithms;

2.3

Comparing Multiple Sequences;

3.

Database Search (Paolo Fontana);

3.1

PAM Matrices;

3.2

BLAST;

3.3

FAST;

4.

Physical Mapping of DNA;

4.1

Biological Background (Riccardo Velasco);

4.2

Physical Mapping of the vitis - an ongoing research project at S. Michele (Riccardo Velasco);

4.3

The Interval Graph Model (Romeo Rizzi);

4.4

The Consecutive Ones Property (Romeo Rizzi).