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Organization

The first lecture of the 2006 Fall term will be held Sept. 11, 12:00.

Dates

Monday and Thursday, 12:00 to 13:00

A tutorial session for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Specialists will be offered Mondays, from 13:00 to 14:00.

Location

MSB 2173

See the Course Web page for information.

Schedule

(This is a preliminary schedule and changes may be made as the course progresses.)

1. Organisation and Orientation (Boris, Monday, Sept. 11)
   First Assignment handed out

Sequences

2. The Sequence Abstraction (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 14)
3. Sequence Properties (Boris, Monday, Sept. 18)
4. Sequence Analysis (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 21)
5. Homology I: the principles (Boris, Monday, Sept. 25)
6. Homology II: Sequence Alignment (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 28)

Structures

7. Protein Structure Databases (Boris, Monday, Oct. 2)
8. Structural Domains (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 5)
   Second Assignment handed out
9. Interpreting Protein Structure (Boris, Monday, Oct. 9)
10. Homology Modeling (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 12)
11. Protein Structure Prediction (Boris, Monday, Oct. 16)
12. Multiple Sequence Alignment (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 19)

Genomes

13. Genome Sequencing (John, Monday, Oct. 23)
14. Genomes (John, Thursday, Oct. 26)
15. Functional Annotation (Shoshana, Monday, Oct. 30)
16. Fast Sequence Database searches (Boris, Thursday, Nov. 2)
    Third Assignment handed out

Evolution

17. Phylogenetic Analysis (NN, Monday, Nov. 6)
18. Clinical Genomics (Boris, Thursday, Nov. 9)
    Fourth Assignment handed out
19. Comparative Genomics (John, Monday, Nov.13)

Systems

20. Expression Analysis (Tim Hughes?, Thursday, Nov. 16)
    Fifth Assignment handed out
21. Proteomics (Andrew Emili?, Monday, Nov. 20)
22. Gene regulation (Shoshana, Thursday, Nov. 23)
23. Machine Learning: Classification and Clustering (Shoshana, Monday, Nov. 27)
    Sixth Assignment handed out
24. Interaction Databases (Shoshana, Thursday, Nov. 30)
25. Pathways and Networks (Gary Bader, Monday, Dec. 4)
26. Computational Systems Biology (John, Thursday, Dec. 8)

In depth...

• Mutation Data Matrices
• Stereo Vision

Resources

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