BCB 444/544

Final Lecture Schedule - Fall 2007 (updated 11/30/07)

Lec #

 

Date

Topic & Text Chapter

 

Reading/URLs

(before lecture)

Homework

Lecture

PPTs

 

1

Aug 20

M

What is Bioinformatics? Part 1

Xiong, Chp 1 p 3-8

HW #1 Assigned

PPT

PDF

2

Aug 22

W

What is Bioinformatics? Part 2

Chp 2 p 10-27

HW #1 Due

PPT

PDF

(embedded URLs has not yet been fixed)

3

Aug 24

F

Brief Biology Review

Genomics & HGP Primer

 

 

4

Aug 27

M

Biological Databases & 

Sequence Alignment

Chp 2 p 10-27

Chp 3 p 31-41

 

PPT

PDF

5

Aug 29

W

Dynamic Programming (DP)

Eddy: What is DP?

 

PPT

PDF

6

Aug 31

F

More DP & Global Alignment

Chp 3 p 41-49

HW #2 Assigned

PPT 1 / 2

PDF 1 / 2

-

Sept 3

M

NO CLASS – Labor Day Holiday

 

 

 

7

Sept  5

W

Still More DP & Local Alignment

Chp 3 p 41-49

 

PPT

PDF

8

Sept  7

F

Finish DP & Scoring Matrices

Chp 3 p 41-49

 

PPT

PDF

9

Sept 10

M

Database Searching & BLAST

Chp 4 p 51-62

 

PPT

PDF

10

Sept 12

W

BLAST Details & Gene Jargon

Chp 4 p 51-62

 

PPT

PDF

11

Sept 14

F

Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA)

Chp 5 p 63-74

HW #2 Due

PPT

PDF

12

Sept 17

M

Scoring MSAs; PSSMs & PSI-BLAST

Chp 5 p 63-74

 

HW #2 Ans Posted

PPT

PDF

13

Sept 19

W

Star Alignment

Clustal

Chp 5 p 63-74

 

 

PPT

PDF

-

Sept 21

F

Midterm Exam #1

Lectures 2-12, HW2, Chps 1-6, Eddy "What is DP" Labs 1-4; see Study Guide #1

14

Sept 24

M

Review: Nucleus, Chromosomes, Genes

 

HW #3 Assigned

PPT

PDF

15

Sept 26

W

Review: RNA, Proteins, Promoters, TFs

 

544 Extra HW #1 Assigned

 

 

PPT

PDF

 

16

Sept 28

F

Profiles & HMMs

Chp 6 p 79-84

Eddy:What's an HMM?

Eddy PDF

 

PPT

PDF 

17

Oct   1

M

More HMMs, Protein Motifs & Domains

Chp 7

544 Extra#1

Task 1 Due

PPT

PDF  

18

Oct   3

W

Protein Motifs & Domain Prediction

Chp 12

 

PPT

PDF 

19

Oct   5

F

Protein Structure: Basics, Visualization, Classification, Comparison

Chp 13

 

PPT

PDF 

20

Oct   8

M

Protein Structure Classification

Chp 14

·                      i) HW #3 Due

ii) 444 Students "Project-instead-of-Final" 544 Extra#1 Task 1.1 Due

 

 

 

PPT

PDF 

21

Oct  10

W

Protein Secondary Structure Prediction

Ch 15

 

PPT

PDF 

22

Oct  12

F

Protein Secondary & Tertiary Structure Prediction

Ch 15

Ginalski NAR05

544 Extra#1

Task 1.2 & 2 Due

HW #4 Assigned

 

PPT

PDF

23

Oct  15

M

Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction

Ch 15

 

PPT

PDF

24

Oct  17

W

RNA Structure Prediction

Ch 16

544 Extra #2 Assigned

PPT

PDF

25

Oct  19

F

More RNA Structure & 544 Projects

Ch 16

 

PPT

PDF 

26

Oct  22

M

Gene Prediction

Ch 8

HW #4 Due

PPT

PDF 

27

Oct  24

W

Promoter & Regulatory Element Prediction

Ch  9

 

PPT

PDF 

-

Oct 26

F

Midterm Exam #2

Lectures 13-26, HW3-4, Chps 6-8 & 12-16, Eddy "What's an HMM?"& Ginalski "Practical Lessons"

Labs 5-8; see Study Guide #2        HW #5 Assigned

28

Oct  29

M

Promoter Prediction

Ch 9

544 Extra#2

Due

PPT

PDF 

29

Oct 31

W

Phylogenetics Basics  Terribilini

Ch 10

 

PPT

PDF 

30

Nov   2

F

Phylogenetics Distance Based Methods  Terribilini

Ch 11

 

PPT

PDF 

31

Nov   5

M

Phylogenetics Character Based Methods  Terribilini

Ch 11

HW #5

Due

PPT

PDF 

32

Nov   7

W

Machine Learning Algorithms

(NB, DT, SVM)  Terribilini

 

 

 PPT

PDF 

33

Nov  9

F

Genomics

Ch 17

 

PPT

PDF

34

Nov  12

M

Comparative Genomics

Ch 17

HW #6 Assigned

PPT

PDF 

35

Nov  14

W

Functional Genomics

Chp 18

 

PPT

PDF 

36

Nov  16

F

Microarrays

Chp 18

 

PPT

PDF 

-

Nov 19-23

NO CLASS - Thanksgiving Break

37

Nov 26

M

Clustering Algorithms

Chp 18

HW #6

Due

PPT

PDF

38

Nov 28

W

Proteomics (2-D Gels & MS)

Chp 19

 

PPT

PDF

39

Nov 30

F

Systems Biology

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PDF

-

Dec 3

No Class

BCB 544 Team Projects – Written Reports Due

-

Dec 5

Dec 7

BCB 544 Team Project Presentations

Attendance Required

HW #7 (Project Peer Evalutions 4 Total) Due

-

Dec 10

M

9:45 – 11:45AM   FINAL EXAM

40 pts In Lab: Practical (Comprehensive)

20 pts In Class: Comprehensive

40 pts In Class: New material (since Exam 2):

Lectures 27-38, HW5-6, Chps 9-11 & 17-19,

    Labs 9-11; see Study Guide Final