Welcome to the course homepage of Review in Computational Biology, which will take place at DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge during Lent Term 2012.

This course mainly aims at developing two critical skills for research: the ability to identify relevant questions from the scientific literature and effective scientific writing. In addition, it introduces students to the process of peer reviewing. Every week, the course reviews a current computational biology research topic. Each student will write one review, and provide two reports on colleagues' written work.

• Course details and policy
• Schedule, slides, and assignments
• Article Management System
• Instructions for authors
• Instructions for referees
• Guidelines for guest lecturers
• Other Resources & Links

Three reviews from last year (at ETH Zurich, Switzerland) have been submitted (after additional work during the summer) and accepted for publication in Briefings in Bioinformatics (Oxford Journals):

• Adam Szalkowski and Christoph Schmid, Rapid innovation in ChIP-seq peak-calling algorithms is outdistancing benchmarking efforts, (Link)
• Christian Ledergerber and Christophe Dessimoz, Base-calling for next-generation sequencing platforms, (Link)
• Louis du Plessis et al., The What, Where, How, and Why of Gene Ontology – A Primer for Bioinformaticians, (Link)