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BCH441 - Bioinformatics
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This is our main tool to coordinate information, activities and projects in University of Toronto's bioinformatics course BCH441. If you are not one of our students, you can still browse this site, however only users with a login account can edit or contribute or edit material. If you are here because you are interested in general aspects of bioinformatics or computational biology, you may want to review the Wikipedia article on bioinformatics, or visit Wikiomics. Contact boris.steipe(at)utoronto.ca with any questions you may have.
Organization
The first lecture of the 2007 Fall term will be held Monday, Sept. 10, 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 general information.
Lecture Schedule
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(This schedule is for orientation only, changes may be made at any time as the subject matter and the progress of the lecture requires.)
- Organisation and Orientation (Boris, Monday, Sept. 10)
- Sequences
- The Sequence Abstraction (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 13)
- Sequence Properties (Boris, Monday, Sept. 17)
- Sequence Analysis (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 20)
- Homology I: the principles (Boris, Monday, Sept. 24)
- Homology II: Sequence Alignment (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 27)
- Structures
- Protein Structure Databases (Boris, Monday, Oct. 1)
- Structural Domains (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 4)
- Interpreting Protein Structure (Boris, Monday, Oct. 8)
- Homology Modeling (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 11)
- Protein Structure Prediction (Boris, Monday, Oct. 15)
- Multiple Sequence Alignment (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 18)
- Genomes
- Genome Sequencing (John, Monday, Oct. 22)
- Genomes (John, Thursday, Oct. 25)
- Functional Annotation (Shoshana, Monday, Oct. 29)
- Fast Sequence Database searches (Boris, Thursday, Nov. 1)
- Evolution
- Phylogenetic Analysis (Boris, Monday, Nov. 5)
- Clinical Genomics (Boris, Thursday, Nov. 8)
- Comparative Genomics (John, Monday, Nov. 12)
- Systems
- Proteomics (Boris, Thursday, Nov. 15)
- Microarray Expression Analysis (Boris, Monday, Nov. 19)
- Gene regulation I (Shoshana, Thursday, Nov. 22)
- Gene regulation II (Shoshana, Monday, Nov. 26)
- Interaction Databases (Shoshana, Thursday, Nov. 29)
- Pathways and Networks (Gary Bader, Monday, Dec. 3)
- Computational Systems Biology (John, Thursday, Dec. 7)
Assignments
First Assignment | Databases and Molecular Models | to be posted Sept. 13, due Oct. 1. |
Second Assignment | Search, Retrieve and Annotate | to be posted Sept. 24, due Oct. 8. |
Third Assignment | Multiple Sequence Alignment | to be posted Oct. 8, due Oct. 22. |
Fourth Assignment | Phylogenetic Analysis | to be posted Oct. 22, due Nov. 5. |
Fifth Assignment | Homology Modeling | to be posted Nov. 5, due Nov. 19. |
Sixth Assignment | Systems | to be posted Nov. 19, due Dec. 3. |
In depth...
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