Math 2300 Discrete Math
Homework

Spring 2017

Dr. Duval

Reading assignment

For the week of April 25-27: On Tuesday I will present the third project of the semester. On Thursday is our third exam, on Chapters 4 and 5.

For the week of May 2-4: On Tuesday, we will go over Exam 3, and discuss Section A.1. On Thursday, we will discuss the homework for Section A.1.

Third exam

will cover Chapters 4 and 5, and it will be on Thursday, April 27. (There will be no quiz the following week, on Thursday, May 4.)

Projects

Project 1.
Interesting web links:

Indel on Wikipedia
Phylogenetics on Wikipedia
Tree of life
- Tree of life project, with a nice interface, but with data that is no longer current (see below)
- Readable magazine article Most of the Tree of Life is a Complete Mystery, about recent (2016) discoveries leading to redrawing the tree of life
GenBank on Wikipedia

Project 2.
Interesting web links (all pages have further references and links to other websites):

About Mass Spectrometry from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (includes videos, and links to history)
Introduction to Mass Spectrometry for chemistry students from the University of Arizona.
Mass spectrometry on Wikipedia

Project 3, due Thursday, May 4.
Interesting web links (some will only work from UTEP computers):

List of your fragments for question 3 of this assignment.
Graph Theory Aiding DNA Fragment Assembly powerpoint slides by Jonathan Kaptcianos.
DNA sequencing lecture notes by Saad Mneimneh.
An Eulerian path approach to DNA fragment assembly article by Pevzner, Tang, and Waterman.
Next-generation sequencing-by-hybridization article by Paul Lizardi.
Rapid genome sequencing with short universal tiling probes article by Pihlak et. al.

Homework

2.1: 2, 4, 10, 12.
2.1: 6, 8, 14, 18, 20, 22, 28.
2.2: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
2.2: 14, 16, 20.
3.1: 10-36 even.
2.3: 2-16 even.
2.4: 2-12 even, 46, 48, 50.
2.5: 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14.
2.5: 16, 22.
2.6: 2, 6, 10, 14, 16, 20.

8.1: 6, 10, 12, 14, 22.
8.2: 4, 6, 10, 14, 18, 26.
8.3: 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 30.
8.4: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14.
8.5: 2, 6, 8, 12, 16.

4.1: 4, 6, 12, 18, 28, 30, 32, 42.
4.2: 18, 20, 24, 26, 32.
4.3: 4, 6, 12, 16.
4.4: 4, 6, 8, 10, 20, 26, 32.
4.5: 12, 16, 22, 46, 48.

5.1: 2-16 even.
5.2: 4, 6, 16, 20, 24, 28.
5.3: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
5.4: 2, 6, 10, 12, 18, 20.
5.5: 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, 24, 28, 30.

A.1: 14-24 even, discussed in class Thursday, May 4.

Math 2300 Discrete Math Homework