Research in Computer Science: A lot of stuff is tagged with "science" on the end Generally science is about building knowledge with as much certainty as possible Hypothesis testing is a big part of that Hypothesis for computer science often takes this form: "An artificial-intelligence system on a sufficiently-powerful computer can defeat even the best human chess player" That leads to a simple test: Try it and see what happens! Which is how hypothesis testing works in any field Generally speaking, Computer Science itself is not coding It is to coding as chemistry is to filling beakers AI coding seems pretty marginal But it would actually help computer science a lot of it worked well Reminder from earlier: People often do this major so they can write software On to bioinformatics: Two ways this can work: 1. Form and test a hypothesis related to computation 2. Assist biologists in testing a hypothesis related to biology There's a greater focus on the second Some journals focus on publishing articles introducing useful tools I suppose it could include interfacing computer with life Neurons tend to react badly to repeated electrical stimulation What can we help with? Genomic comparisons Brief primer on string comparison methods and pitfalls BLAST, and GenBank Classification of species: Used to be by physical traits How BLAST works Terminology note: Bioinformatics is most closely associated with analysis of DNA specifically I'll defer to Wikipedia here, but not everybody does We rebranded to "Computational Biology" anyway We talked about mouse retina earlier How about human brain scans today?