Acting Assistant Professor Matti Nykänen is currently organizing a seminar on Biological Databases (2cu, code 58153031-4). This seminar convenes on selected Fridays from 9 to 12 AM in room A630 of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Helsinki.

Some of the papers are available in PS or PDF form below. E-mail the organizer if you have any troubles with them.

Program
Date Presentation(s)
30.01. First, organizational meeting.
06.03. Heikki Lokki and Jan Lindström: The Bird Ringing Database "Tipu".
20.03. Liisa Tuominen-Roto (the Finnish Environment Institute): Threatened Species Database.
Jarmo Saarikko (the Finnish Forest Research Institute): The BioCISE Project.
27.03. Hellis Tamm: SEQ: a Sequence Database System.
03.04. Atte Korhola and Lilli Nenonen: The Paleological Sample Database "Palmu".
17.04. Kirsti Äystö: The Sequence Retrieval System SRS.
Vesa Ollikainen: Approaches to Disease Gene Localization in Isolated and Recently Admixed Populations.
24.04. Teemu Kivioja: Taxonomical Data Management (ps version) (pdf version).
08.05. Ari-Matti Sarén: Linguistic Approaches to Biological Sequences.
Participants can send their anonymous feedback in Finnish.

Last update on April 27th 1998 by the organizer.