Discovering Computer Science

Section 6.2

• Moby Dick at Project Gutenberg (local copy)
• FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts web page
• FDA safety recall data (local copy)
• Exercises
  • 6.2.2.  A Tale of Two Cities
  • 6.2.4.  list of English words

Section 6.3

• The Unicode standard

Section 6.5

• A concordance of Shakespeare's complete works
• Box 6.2
  • Google Translate
  • Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and book

Section 6.7

• NCBI
• Burmese Python genome, segment 1 (local copy)

Project 6.1

• Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Affordable Care Act vote

Project 6.2

• proj62-skeleton.py
• E. coli 536 genome — 500 bp
• E. coli 536 genome — 1,000 bp
• E. coli 536 genome — 5,000 bp
• E. coli 536 genome — 10,000 bp
• Complete E. coli 536 genome (accession number NC_008253.1)
• NCBI Microbial Genome library (for more data)

Further discovery

• A "Library of Congress" Worth of Data: It’s All In How You Define It
• The DNA Data Deluge

Recommended books and articles

• The Mathematics of Life by Ian Stewart
  
• Natural Computing by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere