Course Material
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Computer Basics
hardware vs. software
von Neumann architecture: CPU + memory + I/O
bits, bytes
operating system
The Web
Web development & growth, World Wide Web Consortium
key ideas: hypertext, Web server, Web browser, search engines
Web protocols: HTTP, HTML
caching, cookies
The Internet
ARPANet development & growth, Internet of Things, Internet Society
key ideas: distributed network, packet-switching
Internet protocols: TCP, IP
IP addresses, domain name servers
Applications in Biology
impacts of computers:
new research tools, computer models, data storage/processing/analysis
bioinformatics: use of CS techniques to solve biological problems
e.g., GenBank public repository of DNA and RNA sequence data
HTML & the Web
structural elements: !DOCTYPE, HTML, HEAD, BODY,
text layout: P, BR,
headings: H1, H2, ..., H6, HR
font formatting: B, I, U, SUP, SUB
STYLE attribute
color properties: COLOR, BACKGROUND-COLOR
font properties: FONT-FAMILY, FONT-SIZE
alignment properties: TEXT-ALIGN, TEXT-INDENT, MARGIN-LEFT, MARGIN-RIGHT
HTML & Hypertext
hyperlinks: A tag; HREF, TARGET attributes
images: IMG tag; SRC, ALT, HEIGHT, WIDTH attributes
lists: UL, OL, LI tags; LIST-STYLE-TYPE style property
tables: TABLE, TR, TD tags; BORDER style property
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