Bioinformatics: Sequence Alignment Is Central…?

Keywords: Illumina, Sequence Alignment, algorithms, teaching, next-generation sequencing
I haven’t posted in a while; I have been busy teaching bioinformatics. I do receive an occasional email or question about learning bioinformatics, so why don’t I just write what I taught here?
Here, at least, was my thinking on the subject. Remember that I was teaching second year [...]