Deciphering the Book of Life

                          Michael Zhang
                   Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

   Accelerated by the Human Genome Project, accumulation of genetic
data (DNA sequences) has reached unprecedented speed. To understand
the structure and the function of those genomes, computational
biologists are working closely with experimental bench-scientists in
developing new analysis methods. I will take a brief journey through
three major areas (gene-finding, sequence comparisons and gene
regulation networks) of computational genomics and try to introduce
some basic methodologies while posing some challenging problems along
the way.