CS 43/143, Spring 2008
Intro to Bioinformatics
DateTopicsReferencesOutDue
Mar 25Intro to course, alignment, and pythonHW 0
Mar 27Pairwise sequence alignment
Apr 1Hidden Markov modelsHW 1HW 0
Apr 3Structure alignment
Apr 8Structure predictionHW 2HW 1
Apr 10DNA Microarrays
Apr 15No classProtein Structure Initiative "Bottlenecks"
Apr 17Phenotype classificationHW 3HW 2
Apr 22Sequence motifs
Apr 24Phylogeny and multiple sequence alignmentHW 3
Apr 29Structure-based protein design
May 1Docking
May 6Midterm
May 8Protein interaction networksProject
May 13Gene regulatory networksProject proposal
May 15Systems biology
(paper discussion)
HW 4
May 20Genome assembly
(paper discussion)
Project update
May 22Protein-protein interactions
(paper discussion)
May 27Project presentations
  • Anuj & Sahil
  • Jarman & Riley
  • Jeff & Rob
  • Paopao, Stephanie, & Tom
HW 4
May 29Project presentations, 110 Moore
  • Bornika & Himanshu
  • Clea & Jon
  • Evan, Jeff, & Taylor
  • Jeremy & Tiger

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