Autumn 2009: Topics in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Schedule: Tuesday & Thursday 3:00-4:20pm

 

Below is a temporary list of topics that I would like to cover.

However, I will change some topics and schedules according to our progress.

 

Date

Topic

Lecturer

Lecture Notes

Sep 29 (T)

Organization and Course Introduction

Jinbo Xu

 

Oct 1 (Th)

Introduction to computational molecular biology

Jinbo Xu

 

Oct 6 (T)

Travel

 

 

Oct 8 (Th)

DNA/protein sequence alignment

 

 

Oct 13 (T)

Homology search: BLAST

 

 

Oct 15 (Th)

Alignment score and statistical significance

 

 

Oct 20 (T)

Homology search: PatternHunter

 

 

Oct 22 (Th)

Homology search: PatternHunter

 

 

Oct 27 (T)

Motif  discovery

 

 

Oct 29 (Th)

Multiple sequence alignment

 

 

Nov 3 (T)

RNA 2nd and 3rd structure prediction

Zhiyong Wang

 

Nov 5 (Th)

RNA 2nd and 3rd structure prediction

Zhiyong Wang

 

Nov 10 (T)

Protein structure comparison/alignment

 

 

Nov 12 (Th)

Protein structure comparison/alignment

 

 

Nov 17 (T)

Protein secondary structure prediction

Zhiyong Wang

 

Nov 19 (Th)

Protein structure prediction (template-based modeling)

Jian Peng

 

Nov 24 (T)

Protein structure prediction (template-based modeling)

Jian Peng

 

Nov 26 (Th)

Thanksgiving

 

 

Dec 1 (T)

Protein structure prediction (template-free modeling)

Feng Zhao (Rm 501)

 

Dec 3 (Th)

Protein structure prediction (template-free modeling)

Feng Zhao

 

Dec 8 (T)

End