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EDUCATIONAL PEARL: Biological sequence similarity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2005

DAVID WAKELING
DAVID WAKELING
Affiliation:
Bioinformatics Group, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PT, UK (e-mail: D.Wakeling@exeter.ac.uk)
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Functional languages provide an excellent framework for formulating biological algorithms in a naive form and then transforming them into an efficient form. This helps biologists understand what matters about programming and brings functional programming into the realm of the practical. In this column, we present an example from our MSc course on bioinformatics and report on our experiences teaching functional programming in this context.

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Educational Pearl
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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 1 - 12
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press
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