Math 2300 Discrete Math
Homework

Fall 2018

Dr. Duval

Reading assignment

For the week of November 27: On Tuesday, we will discuss Project 3, which I will hand out that day. On Thursday, we will discuss the rest of Section 5.2 (breadth-first search) and Section 5.3.

For the week of December 4: On Tuesday, we will discuss Sections 5.4 and 5.5. On Thursday, we will discuss the homework from Sections 5.4 and 5.5.

Third exam

will cover Chapter 4 and Sections 5.1-5.3, and it will be on Tuesday, November 20.

Projects

Project 1.
Interesting web links:

Smith-Waterman on Wikipedia
Smith-Waterman from website Computers and the Human Genome Project at Stanford.

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)
Mass Spectrometry Tutorial from Iowa State University.
Mass spectrometry on Wikipedia

Project 3, due Thursday, December 6.
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.
2.2: 14, 16, 20.
3.1: 10-36 even.
2.3: 2-16 even.
2.4: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
2.4: 46, 48, 50.
2.5: 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14.
2.5: 16, 22.

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: 2, 6, 8, 12, 16, 18, 28, 30, 32, 42 (intended to do 4 instead of 2, and not to do 8 or 16).
4.2: 18, 20, 24, 26, 32.
4.3: 2, 4, 6, 12, 16.
4.4: 4, 6, 8, 10, 26, 32.
4.5: 12, 16, 22, 46, 48.

5.1: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16.
5.2: 4, 6, 16, 20, 24, 28.
5.3: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
5.4: 2, 6, 10, 12, 18, 20, discussed in class Thursday, December 6.
5.5: 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, 24, 28, 30, discussed in class Thursday, December 6.

Math 2300 Discrete Math Homework