BCB 444/544

Lab Schedule - Fall 2007

#	Date (Thurs)	Topics	Reading & Exercises	Brief Answers	Instructor
1	Aug  23	Literature Resources for Bioinformatics This lab will meet in the Library in Room 32	Lab 1		Andrea Dinkelman
2	Aug  30	NCBI - Sequence Databases & Tools ISU Centers, Databases, Servers, Software Pairwise Sequence Alignment & Analysis	Lab 2	AnswerKey	Pete Zaback
3	Sept  6	Database Searching      (BLAST)	Lab 3	Answer Key	Michael Terribilini
4	Sept 13	Multiple Sequence Alignment	Lab 4	Answer Key	Jeff Sander
-	Sept 20	Review for Exam 1 & Independent Projects	Study Guide #1 Answers
5	Sept 27	Protein Function Prediction (Sequence-based; PSSMs, HMMs, ProSite)	Lab 5	Answer Key	Jeff Sander
6	Oct   4	Protein Structure Databases & Visualization (PDB, PyMol, Cn3D)	Lab 6 Submission Form	Answer Key	Pete Zaback
7	Oct  11	Protein Structure Prediction	Lab 7 Intro Slides	Answer Key	Michael Terribilini
8	Oct  18	RNA Structure Prediction	Lab 8	Answer Key	Michael Terribilini
-	Oct  25	Review for Exam 2 & Independent Projects	At 2 p.m., due to a schedule conflict
9	Nov   1	Gene & Regulatory Element Prediction	Lab 9	Answer Key	Jeff Sander
10	Nov   8	Machine Learning (WEKA: NB, DT, SVMs)	Lab 10	Answer Key	Michael Terribilini
11	Nov  15	Microarray Analysis	Lab 11 Submission Form	Answer Key	Pete Zaback
-	Nov 22	NO LAB - Thanksgiving Break
12	Nov 29	Programming in R: Statistical Computing and Graphics	Lab 12 R homepage	Exercise Solutions	Garrett Dancik
-	Dec  6	No Lab – Optional Review for Final Exam
-	Dec 13	NO LAB - Finals Week