CENG 465 - Introduction to Bioinformatics (Fall 2017-2018)
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  Date Lecture Topics Reading Assignments
Week
#1
Oct 2, Mon





Oct 3, Tue

Introduction to molecular biology and genetics, biological databases, and high-throughput data sources. Overview of bioinformatics problems.

Lecture Slides
Class Web Page

Bioinformatics - An Introduction for Computer Scientists

Introduction to Molecular Biology

More reading on cells and genomes:
Cells and Genomes

How cells read the genome
 

 

Week
#2
Oct 9, Mon



Oct 10, Tue

Pairwise sequence alignment algorithms:
Dynamic programming

Lecture Slides

Sequence alignment C code
Sample input for alignment
Pairwise Sequence Alignment

 

 

 

Week
#3
Oct 16, Mon





Oct 17, Tue

Statistical significance of alignments
Lecture Slides

Suffix Trees, Suffix Arrays
Lecture Slides

Statistical Significance of Alignments

Statistical Significance of Alignments (Reading 2)

 

Assignment #1
Due date: November 6, 23:55. Submit via ODTU-Class.  

Week
#4
Oct 23, Mon


Oct 24, Tue

Patterns, Profiles, and Multiple Alignments

Hidden Markov Models

Lecture Slides

Chapter 6 from the textbook

 

 

Week
#5
Oct 30, Mon

Oct 31, Tue

Hidden Markov Models continued  

 

Week
#6
Nov 6, Mon

Nov 7, Tue

Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms

Week 5 Lecture Slides Continued
 

Assignment #2
Due date: November 22, 23:55. Submit via ODTU-Class.  

Week
#7
Nov 13, Mon

Nov 14, Tue

Phylogenetic trees
Lecture Slides

 

 

Week
#8
Nov 20, Mon

Nov 21, Tue

Phylogenetic trees continued.

Midterm review on Tuesday

Midterm Exam (at 17:40 on Thursday)

Sample midterm
 

 

 

Week
#9
Nov 27, Mon


Nov 28, Tue

Introduction to protein structures

Lecture Slides

 

 

 

Week
#10
Dec 4, Mon

Dec 5, Tue

Protein Structure Prediction

Structural Alignment of Proteins

Lecture Slides (continued)

 

 

Assignment #3
Due date: December 19, 23:55. Submit via ODTU-Class.  

Week
#11
Dec 11, Mon


Dec 12, Tue

Microarray data analysis

Clustering techniques

Lecture Slides

K-means Empty Cluster Example

K-means Demo
Self Organizing Maps Demo
Microarrays Intro Paper - 1

Microarrays Intro Paper - 2

Microarrays Intro Paper - 3

 

 

 

Week
#12
Dec 18, Mon

Dec 19, Tue

Introduction to Systems Biology

Lecture Slides

Reading: Algorithmic Systems Biology

A systems view of protein-protein interactions

A systems view of metabolism

A systems view of regulatory mechanisms

 

Assignment #4
Due date: January 21, 23:55. Submit via ODTU-Class.  

Week
#13
Dec 25, Mon

Dec 26, Tue

Analysis of biological networks

Lecture Slides

 

 

Week
#14
Jan 1, Mon

Jan 2, Tue

No class on Monday. New Year's first day.

Final review on Tuesday.