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Bioinformatics Applications

Fall Semester 2013, 3 credits

Schedule:
  • Lecture: Normally, two 75 minute lectures per week, 9:30 AM, Tuesdays and Thursdays, room 1501, Plant Sciences.
  • Labs: Computer lab sessions will be interspersed with lectures as appropriate.
1 Tue 13 Aug Introduction Malmberg, Leebens-Mack
2 Thr 15 Aug Unix, Linux, Command-Line Malmberg
3 Tue 20 Aug Lab - Command-Line, Local Resources Yecheng Huang
4 Thr 22 Aug NCBI, Blast, Entrez Malmberg
5 Tue 27 Aug Databases Malmberg
6 Thr 29 Aug File Formats, HTML XML, Ontologies Malmberg
7 Tue 3 Sep Lab - Genome Browsers Malmberg
8 Thr 5 Sep Scoring Matrices Malmberg
9 Tue 10 Sep Two Sequence Alignments, Database Choices due Malmberg
10 Thr 12 Sep Multiple Sequence Alignments I Malmberg
11 Tue 17 Sep Lab - Multiple Sequence Alignments Malmberg
12 Thr 19 Sep Pseudocounts & Motifs Malmberg
13 Tue 24 Sep Sensitivity & Specificity, Markov Models Malmberg
14 Thr 26 Sep Structure Prediction Malmberg
15 Tue 1 Oct Lab - Structure Prediction, Exam 1 given Malmberg
16 Thr 3 Oct Multiple Sequence Alignments II Leebens-Mack
17 Tue 8 Oct Phylogenetic Trees, Exam 1 due Leebens-Mack
18 Thr 10 Oct Phylogenetic Trees Leebens-Mack
19 Tue 15 Oct Phylogenetic Trees Leebens-Mack
20 Thr 17 Oct Lab - Phylogenetic Trees Leebens-Mack
21 Tue 22 Oct Molecular Evolution Leebens-Mack
22 Thr 24 Oct Molecular Evolution Leebens-Mack
23 Tue 29 Oct Sequence Assembly Leebens-Mack
24 Thr 31 Oct Transcriptomes Leebens-Mack
25 Tue 5 Nov Read Mapping Leebens-Mack
26 Thr 7 Nov Read Mapping, Database web pages due Leebens-Mack
27 Tue 12 Nov Gene Ontologies and Pathways Leebens-Mack
28 Thr 14 Nov Lab Sequence Assembly Leebens-Mack
29 Tue 19 Nov Database Reports Graduate Students
30 Thr 21 Nov Database Reports, Exam 2 given Graduate Students
  Tue 26 Nov  ~~ Thanksgiving Holiday ~~ 
  Thr 28 Nov  ~~ Thanksgiving Holiday ~~ 
  Tue 3 Dec "The University shall operate a Friday class schedule on Tuesday, Dec. 3."
PS2   Exam 2 due

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