Most readings will be articles from the primary literature
Recommended text: Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids.
R. Durbin, S. Eddy, A. Krogh, and G. Mitchison. Cambridge University Press,
1998. (errata)
Recommended online text: Translational Bioinformatics: a collection of PLoS Computational Biology. (Link)