• NAME
Last Name: First Name:

• E-MAIL (full address VERY CLEARLY!!!)

• PHONE (full number including area code)

• DEPARTMENT

• Degree currently being sought: Bachelors Masters PhD Other

• Are you taking this course on SITN: Yes No

• Planning to take this course for credit audit this course undecided

• Other courses this quarter:
 

Dept	Number	Name of course

• Level of programming experience

written whole programs with graphic output display
written whole programs in some language
made slight modifications or customizations in existing code
run packaged software
none of the above

• Programming language(S) you WOULD LIKE TO USE:

LISP   C++   C   Pascal   Basic  
Java   Fortran   Perl   Python   MatLab   S-Plus   Other
Our TAs should approve any language used. The ones listed are pre-approved.

• Computers you own or have access to (other than usual SU public machines) at home, job, elsewhere:

PC model   Macintosh model   SGI model  
Sun model   Other

• Background Knowledge: It would be helpful to know about your prior knowledge about the areas on the list below. Many of these items will be covered in this course, so don't be concerned if you frequently check the first column.

	Know very little or nothing about this	Know just the basic ideas and principles	Very familiar with this
DNA
RNA
Proteins
Molecular biology
Cell biology
Sequence alignment algorithms
Protein alignment algorithms
Molecular dynamics simulations
Optimization
Dynamic programming
Computational geometry
Finite automata
Robotics
3D rotations, translations
Database design and implementation
Knowledge bases
Data integration
Phyologenetic trees
Genetic algorithms
Genetic programming
Simulated annealing
Protein structure prediction
Genomics
Networks of interacting genes
Machine Learning
Natural Language processing