Math 2300 Discrete Math
Homework

Fall 2019

Dr. Duval

Reading assignment

For the week of November 18: On Monday and Wednesday, we will discuss Sections 5.4 and 5.5. UPDATE: On Wednesday, we will also discuss Project 3, see details below. On Friday is our third exam, see details below.

For the week of November 25: On Monday, we will finish discussing Section 5.5. On Wednesday, we will discuss Section A.1 (in the Appendix). There is no class on Friday (Happy Thanksgiving!)

For the week of December 3: On Monday, we will discuss Section A.2. On Wednesday, we will discuss the homework problems of Sections A.1 and A.2.

No more quizzes

There are no more quizzes this semester.

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- Tree of life project, with a nice interface, but with data that is no longer current (see below)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)
Mass Spectrometry Tutorial from Iowa State University.
Mass spectrometry on Wikipedia

Project 3, due Wednesday, December 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, 12, 14, 16.
3.1: 18-36 even.
2.3: 2, 4, 6, 8.
2.3: 10, 12, 14, 16.
2.4: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
2.4: 46, 48, 50.
2.5: 2, 4, 6.
2.5: 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.
8.3: 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: 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.
5.5: 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, 24, 28, 30.

A.1: 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, discussed in class, Wednesday, December 5.
A.2: 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24, discussed in class, Wednesday, December 5.

Math 2300 Discrete Math Homework