Martin Tompa

office: Paul Allen Center 538
phone: (206) 543-9263
research coordinator: Jennifer Maione, (206) 616-3726
receptionist: (206) 543-1695
fax: (206) 543-2969

Typical weekly schedule

Lecture notes and articles

Our department's Computational Molecular Biology research group.

Assessment of Motif Discovery Algorithms

Passages

• Lady Croom: You surely do not supply a hermitage without a hermit?
  Noakes (the landscape architect): Indeed, madam -
  Lady Croom: Come, come, Mr Noakes. If I am promised a fountain I expect it to come with water. What hermits do you have?
  Noakes: I have no hermits, my lady.
  Lady Croom: Not one? I am speechless.
  Noakes: I am sure a hermit can be found. One could advertise.
  Lady Croom: Advertise?
  Noakes: In the newspapers.
  Lady Croom: But surely a hermit who takes a newspaper is not a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence.

  - Tom Stoppard, "Arcadia"

• "You weren't even here for the discussion," Finny, who's chairing the meeting in the absence of the chair, points out.
  "I've been listening to you people for thirty years," Billy reminds his colleagues. "Don't tell me I haven't been here for the discussion."

  - Richard Russo, "Straight Man"

• Guildenstern: On fortune's cap, we are not the very button.
  Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?
  Rosencrantz: Neither

  - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"