1994-00 Special Year in Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology

Programs:

• Overview of the Special Year
• Organizing Committee and Sponsors
• Calendars:
  • Workshop Calendar with links to full information of programs, registration, etc.
  • 1998 - 1999 Seminar Series
• Special Year in Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology Calendar
• The Fourth DIMACS International Algorithm Implementation Challenge
• DIMACS Special Year Distinguished Lecture Series
• DIMACS 1998 - 1999 Special Year Seminar Series
• Visitors and Postdocs

Selected Publications and Reports:

• AMS DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
  • Volume Twenty Three: "Global Minimization of Nonconvex Energy Functions: Molecular Conformation and Protein Folding", Editors: P.M. Pardalos, D. Shalloway, and G. Xue
    Proceedings of workshop held 3/20-3/21/95

  • Volume Twenty Seven: "DNA Based Computers - Proceedings of a DIMACS Workshop, April 4, 1995", Editors: Richard J. Lipton and Eric B. Baum
    Proceedings of workshop held 4/4/95

  • Volume Thirty Seven "Mathematical Hierarchies and Biology", Editors: Boris Mirkin, F. R. McMorris, Fred S. Roberts and Andrey Rzhetsky
    Proceedings of workshop held 11/13-11/15/96

  • Volume Forty Four: "The 2nd Annual DIMACS Workshop on DNA Based Computing", Editors: Laura Landweber and Eric Baum
    Proceedings of workshop held 6/10-6/12/96

  • Volume Forty Seven: "Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology", Editors: Martin Farach-Colton, Fred S. Roberts, Martin Vingron and Michael Waterman
    Highlights from the Special Year in Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology

  • Volume Forty Eight: "DNA Based Computers III", Editors: Harvey Rubin and David Harlan Wood
    Proceedings of workshop held 6/23-6/25/97

  • Volume Fifty Five: "Discrete Mathematical Problems with Medical Applications", Editors: Ding-Zhu Du, Panos M. Pardalos, and Jie Wang
    Proceedings of workshop held 12/8-23/20/99

• Proceedings of the Workshop on "DNA Mapping" published in the Journal of Computational Biology, 1995, vol. 2 #2.

• Proceedings of the Workshop on "Phylogeny" available in postscript: Tech Report 95-48.

• Proceedings of the workshop on "Combinatorial Pattern Matching (the 9th Annual Symposium, CPM '98)" available from Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 1448. ISBN 3-540-64739-2.

• Reports
  • Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology - Achievements - August 1994 to August 2000
  • Annual Report prepared January 1997 (postscript file)
  • Annual Report prepared January 1996
  • Evaluation of the 1994-1998 Special Year on Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology prepared by Daniel Gusfield (University of California-Davis), Sampath Kannan, chair (University of Pennsylvania) and Pavel Pevzner (University of Southern California) - June 11, 1998.

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