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BCH441 - Bioinformatics

Welcome to the BCH441 Course Wiki.

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.

The Course

I am in the process of repairing the original course Wiki and many of the pages are still arbitrarily outdated. Please don't use pages other than those that are linked directly from here.
Contact Boris Steipe for all matters of urgency. November 11. 2011

Organization

Dates
Lectures: Monday, 13:00 to 14:00 and Thursday, 12:00 to 13:00
Tutorial sessions: Mondays, 12:00 to 13:00 for in-class quizzes, quiz debriefings, exam preparation and other activities, as the need arises.
Location
MSB 2173 (Medical Sciences Building)
General

See the Course Web page for general information.

We are recommending Understanding Bioinformatics, Zvelebil & Baum, Garland 2008 as a background textbook for the course. (buy used at AbeBooks)

This is an electronic submission only course; but if you must print material, you might consider printing double-sided. Learn how, at the Print-Double-Sided Student Initiative.


Grading and Activities

Activity Weight
(Undergraduates)
Weight
(Graduates)
5 Assignments 15 marks (5 x 3) 10 marks (5 x 2)
5 In-class quizzes 35 marks (5 x 7) 25 marks (5 x 5)
Open project 7 marks 5 marks
"Classroom" participation 3 marks 3 marks
Graduate project   17 marks
Final exam 40 marks 40 marks
Total 100 marks 100 marks


A note on marking

It is not my policy to adjust marks towards a target mean and variance (i.e. there will be no "belling" of grades). I feel strongly that such "normalization" detracts from a collaborative and mutually supportive learning environment. If your classmate gets a great mark because you helped him with a difficult concept, this should never have the effect that it brings down your mark through class average adjustments. Collaborate as much as possible, it is a great way to learn. However I may adjust marks is if we phrase questions ambiguously on quizzes or if I decide that the final exam was too long.

Assignments

Assignment 5 has been posted.
Due Monday, Dec. 5.

Temporary links for material

Lecture slides

Lecture recordings