Schedule
Introduction to BioInformatics
Fall 2004

This schedule may be modified both in advance (to reflect anticipated changes in material and schedule) and in retrospect (to reflect what was actually covered each week).  Dates of midterms may change.

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Date
Subject
(click for lecture notes)
Instructor
HW
Due
Lab
Material
Readings
1 Wed 9/8 Introduction to the course: administrivia and example problem Ungar     Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 1 & 2: skim for background only
2 Mon 9/13 Dynamic programming Hannenhalli     Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 3: p. 65-74, 79-112
3 Wed 9/15 Sequence alignment Hannenhalli HW1 Due 09/22/04

solutions
Lab 1 same as above
4 Mon 9/20 BLAST & its variants Hannenhalli     Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 6: p. 227-258, 269-270
5 Wed 9/22 Statistics in BLAST I (hardcopy handout) Ewens HW2 Due 09/29/04

solutions
Lab 2 Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 4: mostly unnecessary; read p. 126, p. 140, p. 147-148
6 Mon 9/27 Statistics in BLAST II (hardcopy handout) Ewens     same as above
7 Wed 9/29 Motif finding I Hannenhalli No homework this week Lab 3 Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 5: p. 192-193, skim p. 194-204 (read the supplementary handout), p. 210-215; Chapter 9: p. 385-396
8 Mon 10/4 Motif finding II

Supplementary handout on motif finding

Hannenhalli     same as above
9 Wed 10/6 Promoter Prediction Hannenhalli HW3 Due 10/13/04

HW3 clarification

solutions

Lab 4 same as above
10 Mon 10/11 Comparative genomics & rVista Hannenhalli     Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 11: gives an overview, but nothing specific about what we covered
11 Wed 10/13 Gene finding Pt I

Summary so far

Ungar     Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 11: p. 366-375, skim p. 375-383 for the biology
12 Mon 10/18 Genefinding Pt 2 regression and neural nets Ungar     Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 11: p. 372-385
13 Wed 10/20 Gene finding III [pdf] Ungar     same as above
  Fri 10/22 MIDTERM I (Towne 321 at 2 pm)

Review questions and study guide

Midterm I solutions

       
  Mon 10/25 No class (Fall break)        
14 Wed 10/27 Gene finding IV (HMMs) Ungar   Lab 5 same as above & supplementary web resource
15 Mon 11/1 Gene Expression I Cheung HW4 Due 11/10/04 UPDATED to fix typo

data files for regression problem

solutions

  Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 13 p. 616-621 & supplementary web resources
16 Wed 11/3 Gene Expression II [B/W pdf] [color pdf] Tobias   Lab 6 Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 13
17 Mon 11/8 Gene Expression III [B/W pdf] [color pdf] Tobias     Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 13
18 Wed 11/10 Gene Expression IV Ungar   Lab 7 Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 13
19 Mon 11/15 Gene Expression V Tobias HW5 Due 11/22/04
Q4 data file (Updated)

solutions

  Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 13
20 Wed 11/17 Gene Regulatory Networks Ungar     Sequence & Genome Analysis. Chapter 13
21 Mon 11/22 Proteomics I [pdf] Hippler     A review for reading before class

Supplementary proteomics paper

Supplementary MS paper

  Wed 11/24 No class (Thanksgiving)        
22 Mon 11/29 Proteomics II Hippler HW6 part I Due 12/6/04

solutions

HW6 part II Due 12/8/04 (UPDATED)

Part II solutions

   
23 Wed 12/1 Proteomics III (same handout as above) Hippler   Lab 8  
24 Mon 12/6 Proteomics IV Hippler      
25 Wed 12/8 Midterm review questions and study guide

Summary by Dr. Ungar

TAs      
26 Fri 12/10 MIDTERM II: Towne 303, 2-3pm

Midterm II solutions