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Welcome to BIMM 140

This web page is the official source of information about BiMM140 and you should frequently check here for updates and corrections. Also check the BIMM 140 Syllabus for changes in the lecture schedule.

• 26 March 2003 - Course Web Pages for Spring, 2003, are being prepared.
  
  
• 31 March 2003 - Nearly all of the Course Web Pages have been finished. The lecture PDF file for the first two lectures is available under Lectures.
  
  
• 2 April 2003: A request has been made to make the PDF lecture files smaller by preparing one such for each lecture. We will do this.
  
  
• 2 April 2003: Printing Problems? One student experienced problems printing out an entire Lecture PDF file, namely, the printer slowed down and finally "timed out". This is probably due to limited memory capacity of the printer, particularly true for old printers. Some of the Lecture Slides have high image content and hence require considerable memory. If you have this problem, try printing out fewer Lecture Slides at a time, particularly for high image content slides such as Slides 24-27 (Slides 12-15 in single lecture PDF file) for the Resources I lecture of Wed 2 April.
  
  
• 3 April, 2003: Aaron Parker, TA, Office Hours: Tues, 2-3 pm, York 3010D
  This information has also been posted on the Header at the top of each of these Web Pages.
  
  
• 3 April, 2003: Printing Problems 2: We have noticed a problem with use of Acrobat Reader on PC computers in both displaying and printing out the Lecture PDF files directly from Internet Explorer. This is probably the same problem as that noted above. Clearly the above "solution" will not work if the slides can not be displayed.
• A solution to this appears to be the following for PC computers:
  • Go to the Lectures Web page and place the mouse over the Lecture PDF file you desire.
    BUT do NOT click on the Web link.
  • Rather: RIGHT click using the PC 2-button mouse
    and select "Save Target as ..." from the PopUp Menu that appears. The Lecture PDF File will automatically be saved as a PDF file.
  • Save the File some place on your PC computer, open the File with Acrobat Reader, and proceed to examine or print out the Lecture Slides.
• If you are using a Mac computer, just save the PDF File to disk, open it with Acrobat Reader, and proceed to examine or print out the Lecture Slides.
• In case these solutions do NOT work, the lectures for Mon 31 Mar (31Mar) and Wed 2 Apr (1Apr) are available as separate PDF files, and the lecture for Fri 4 Apr is available as three files (4ApA, 4ApB, 4ApC). These files should be small enough that you can display and print them directly on PC Computers.
• Please send email to dsmith@ucsd.edu if you continue to have problems printing out the lecture notes.
  
  
• 4 April, 2003: The suggestion has been made to make the Lecture Slide page Numbers be continuous between lectures rather than start with page 1 with each pdf file, to facilitate identification of which printed slide belongs to which pdf file and lecture.
  This is difficult to do, since the Slide Number is part of the Master PPT slide.
  However, the Lecture Slides now have the Lecture Number at the top of each slide, and the Lecture Number is now present on the Syllabus Web Page.
  You may of course also add your own pagination code to each page that you print out, for identification purposes.
  
  
• 8 April,2003: Lecture Notes are updated through Wednesday, 9 April, 2003
• Quiz 1: Fri 11 April, 2003, in Discussion Section; 20 min, beginning at 10:05 am; short answer;
  covers from Lec 1 up through lecture of Wed 9 April.
  
  
• 14 April, 2003: Quiz1 is graded and will be available in Lecture today
  Key, Distribution, and Statistics are posted here under Exams ... the mean was 66.2 / 100 !!
  Note: The Key and Graph are gif images ... you can bring these up in your browser as an image, and then print out the image ...
  
  
• 9 May, 2003: Lecture Notes are updated through Friday, 9 May, 2003
  The pdf file "may9.2003" contains material from the lecture of Wednesday, 7 May, 2003
  
  
• 15 May 2003: Final exam will be Thursday June 12 in WLH 2207 from 11:30 to 2:30 pm.
  
  
• 1 June 2003: Statistics and Score Distributions are now available for all Quizes, and the Key for Quiz 4 is also available; look in the Exams Web page. Lecture notes are now available from the Lectures Web page on the 3D Modeling / Homology / Threading / Energy Minimization / Molecular Dynamics lectures.
  
  
• 10 June 2003: Lecture Notes are now available as pdf files for all Lectures. The lectures of 21-23 May of Protein Structure, and of 6 June, on LD and Hapolotype Mapping, have been split into parts to yield small enough pdf files to download from PC computers (hopefully!).