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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.)
- Organisation and Orientation (Boris, Monday, Sept. 11)
First Assignment handed out
- Sequences
- The Sequence Abstraction (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 14)
- Sequence Properties (Boris, Monday, Sept. 18)
- Sequence Analysis (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 21)
- Homology I: the principles (Boris, Monday, Sept. 25)
Second Assignment handed out - Homology II: Sequence Alignment (Boris, Thursday, Sept. 28)
- Structures
- Protein Structure Databases (Boris, Monday, Oct. 2)
- Structural Domains (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 5)
- Interpreting Protein Structure (Boris, Monday, Oct. 9)
Third Assignment handed out - Homology Modeling (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 12)
- Protein Structure Prediction (Boris, Monday, Oct. 16)
- Genomes
- Fast Sequence Database searches (Boris, Thursday, Oct. 19)
- Genome Sequencing (John, Monday, Oct. 23)
- Genomes (John, Thursday, Oct. 26)
Fourth Assignment handed out - Functional Annotation (John, Monday, Oct. 30)
- Clinical Genomics (NN, Thursday, Nov. 2)
- Evolution
- Multiple Sequence Alignment (Boris, Monday, Nov. 6)
- Phylogenetic Analysis (Elisabeth Tillier?, Thursday, Nov. 9)
Fifth Assignment handed out - Comparative Genomics (John, Monday, Nov.13)
- Systems
- Gene regulation (Shoshana, Thursday, Nov. 16)
- Machine Learning: Classification and Clustering (Shoshana, Monday, Nov. 20)
Sixth Assignment handed out - Expression Analysis (Tim Hughes?, Thursday, Nov. 23)
- Proteomics (Andrew Emili?, Monday, Nov. 27)
- Interaction Databases (Shoshana, Thursday, Nov. 30)
- Pathways and Networks (Shoshana, Monday, Dec. 4)
- Computational Systems Biology (Shoshana, Thursday, Dec. 8)
Resources
Course Wiki
- Introduction: Concept and contents of the Course Wiki
- Soapbox: A page to commmunicate. Do you want to leave a message? Alert the course members? Voice an opinion? Praise or flame? Use this page.
- Editing: Editing principles and Wiki markup syntax for the Course Wiki pages
- Sandbox: A page for your editing experiments. Content added to this page will not stay permanently.
- Feedback: Share your views on the course, suggest improvements.
Course Web
- The Course Web site.
