Computer Science Department, Bucknell University

THE Problem Fall, 1997

You are employed as a systems analyst at Bison Scientific, a company that develops software tools for computational scientists. The company develops total packages including hardware, software, training materials and maintenance options primarily on scientific workstations running Unix and X-Windows, but, also, develops products that run on Macintoshs and IBM compatibles under Windows 95. The president of the company recognizes the importance of the Internet to the company's customers.

THE Problem: "Investigate the feasibility of a computational solution to gene sequencing."

Sequence assembly of DNA fragments in a Genome is an important problem in Computational Biology.


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