Thurs

Sep  13

Introduction to genomics & computational biology

Lecturers: Singh & Tavazoie

Readings: Genomes,  chapter 1, Recombinant DNA Ch. 1-3

Tues 

Sep  18

Sequencing & mapping

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings: Genomes, chapter 2-4

Thurs

Sep  20

Sequence alignment & database search

Lecturer: Singh

Readings: Lecture Notes

Tues

Sep  25

Sequence alignment & database search

Lecturer: Singh

Readings: Lecture Notes

Assignment: PS1, due 10/9

Thurs

Sep  27

Transcriptional regulation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings: Recombinant DNA Ch. 4,9

Tues

Oct  2

Technologies for monitoring transcriptional networks

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings: Lockhart & Winzeler

Thurs

Oct  4

Introduction to motifs/profiles

Lecturer: Singh

Readings:  Lecture Notes

Tues

Oct  9

EM & Gibbs sampling approaches to motif finding

Lecturer: Singh

Readings: Lawrence and Reilly,  Lawrence et al.

Assignment: PS2, due 10/23

Thurs

Oct  11

Transcriptional networks:  analysis I

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings: Eisen et al, Tavazoie et al., Quackenbush

Tues

Oct 16

Transcriptional networks:  analysis II

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings: Tavazoie et al.

Thurs

Oct  18

Hidden Markov models

Lecturer: Singh

Tues

Oct  23

Phylogenetic reconstruction

Lecturer: Singh

Readings:  Lecture Notes

Assignment: PS3, due 11/13

Thurs

Oct  25

Transcriptional profiling in diagnosis and prognosis of disease

Guest Lecturer: D. Notterman

Readings: Alon et al.

Tues

Oct 30

Fall Break

Thurs

Nov  1

Fall Break

Tues

Nov  6

Gene finding

Lecturer: Singh

Thurs

Nov  8

Secondary Structure Prediction

Lecturer: Singh

Final project proposals due

Tues

Nov 13

Threading

Lecturer: Singh

Assignment: PS4, due 11/29

Thurs

Nov 15

Proteomics

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings: Gygi et al.

Tues

Nov 20

Functional genomics: From genotype to phenotype to fitness

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings: Winzeler et al.

Thurs

Nov 22

Thanksgiving

Tues

Nov 27

Experimental analysis of bi-molecular interactions

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings:  Uetz et al., Ito et al.

Thurs

Nov 29

Networks I

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings: von Dassow et al., Alon et al.

Tues

Dec 4

Predicting  Protein-Protein Interactions

Lecturer: Singh

Thurs

Dec  6

Networks II

Lecturer: Tavazoie

Readings:  Jeong et al., Wagner

Tues

Dec 11

Class Presentations

Thurs

Dec 13

Class Presentations