CS 368 Introduction to Bioinformatics

General Information
Homework Assignments
Projects
Schedule and Lecture Notes
Resources

General Information

Syllabus

User Group

IEEE Meetings

Homework Assignments

Projects

Tentative Schedule and Lecture Notes

(The content of this website will be revised progressively as the semester goes.)

• Prologue and Molecular Biology Primer. 
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 1 of the text (up to before the section of "Molecular Biology Tools")
• Sequence Alignment
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 2, except for "FASTA"
• Dot Plots
• Bioinformatics Programming: Introduction to Perl
  Reading Assignment: Appendices 1 and 3 of the text.
• BLAST (a quick guide)
• Sequence and Database Search Lab
• Substitution Patterns
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 3

• Phylogenetics Part I Part II Part III
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 4 and Chapter 5
• Bioinformatics Programming: More Perl (Perl2.pdf) (Perl Regular Expression Quick Reference)
• Genomics and Gene Prediction GenBank Data Example
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 6
• Molecular Biology Tools
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 1, "Molecular Biology Tools"
• Biological Databases
• Guest Lectures
  • Introduction to Microarray Technology, by Dr. Alexey Leontovich, Mayo Clinic.

Resources

• Institutes: NCBI, EBI
• Bioinformatics Tools: NCBI Tools, BLAST, Biology Workbench, ACeDB
• Protein Databases: UniProt, PROSITE, PRINTS, SCOP
• DNA Sequence Databases: GenBank, EMBL
• Phylogentic Analysis: MEGA