Syllabus for Computational Genomics

Spring, 2003

DATE

TOPICS

INSTRUCTOR

Jan 23, 2003

Overview and Computing Concepts (I)

Prof. Casavant

Jan 28, 2003

Bioinformatics Overview and Computing Concepts (II)

Prof. Casavant

Feb 4, 2003

Review of Molecular Biology and Genetics

Dr. Scheetz

Feb 11, 2003

Sequence Analysis Algorithms

Prof. Casavant

Feb 18, 2003

Programing Languages for Bioinformatics:  Perl
(Homework 1 out)

Dr. Scheetz

Feb 25,2003

The CGI and BioPerl Modules

 

Dr. Bair

Mar 6, 2003

(Thursday)

Biological Databases and Data structures

(Homework 1 due; Homework 2 out)

Dr. Bair

Mar 11, 2003

Phylogenetics and Midterm*

Dr. Scheetz

Mar 18, 2003

Spring Break (No Class!); New concepts in Vacation…

 

Mar 25, 2003

Hidden Markov Models and Domain Finding

Prof. Casavant

Apr 1, 2003

Genome and Transcriptome Analysis

(Homework 2 due; Homework 3 out)

Prof. Casavant

Apr 8, 2003

Promoter and mRNA prediction

Dr. Bair

Apr 15, 2003

Microarray and Gene Expression Analysis

(Homework 3 due; Final Project out)

Dr. Scheetz

Apr 22, 2003

Pathways

Dr. Bair

Apr 29, 2003

Linkage Analysis

Dr. Braun

May 6, 2003

Gene/EST Mapping

Dr. Scheetz

May 13, 2003

Final Project presentation

 

·        Midterm will be one hour in class exam.