| Date | Topic | Name | Article |
| 12.04.2012 | Organizational Matters | | |
| 26.04.2012 | Textbooks | Daniel Dörr | R. Durbin, S. Eddy, A. Krogh, G. Mitchison: Biological Sequence Analysis - Probabilistic models of protein and nucleic acids. Cambridge University Press 1998. |
| 10.05.2012 | | Linda Sundermann | David W. Mount: Bioinformatics - Sequence and Genome Analysis. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2001. |
15.05.2012  | | Roland Wittler | Joseph Felsenstein: Inferring Phylogenies. Sinauer Associates 2004. |
| 24.05.2012 | Papers | Kai Stadermann | Jared T. Simpson and Richard Durbin: Efficient construction of an assembly string graph using the FM-index. Bioinformatics 26, i367-i373, 2010. (Proc. of ISMB 2010) |
| 31.05.2012 | latest science | Jens Stoye | K. Jahn, H. Sudek, J. Stoye: Maximum Common Intervals Revisited. (What I'm currently doing.) |
| 14.06.2012 | Organizational Matters | | |
| 28.06.2012 | Papers | Jennifer Hess | W.E. Castle Is the Arrangement of the Genes in the Chromosome Linear?, A.H. Sturtevant et al. THE SPATIAL RELATIONS OF GENES, W.E. Castle Are Genes Linear or Non-Linear in Arrangement?, and for ambitious readers: T.H. Morgan et al. The Evidence for the Linear Order of the Genes |
| 12.07.2012 | Paper | Annelyse Thevenin | Seymour Benzer On the topology of the genetic fine structure |