CENG 465 - Introduction to Bioinformatics (Fall 2013-2014)
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  Date Lecture Topics Reading Assignments
Week
#1
Sep 26, Thur



Sep 27, Fri

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 3, Thur





Oct 4, Fri

Pairwise sequence alignment algorithms:
Dynamic programming

Lecture Slides
 

 

Week
#3
Oct 10, Thur


Oct 11, Fri

Pairwise sequence alignment algorithms:
Dynamic programming

Lecture Slides
Pairwise Sequence Alignment

Assignment #1
DUE DATE: October 27, 23:55 via COW
 

Week
#4
Oct 24, Thur

Oct 25, Fri

Statistical significance of alignments - Part I

Statistical significance of alignments - Part II

Lecture Slides
Statistical Significance of Alignments

Statistical Significance of Alignments (Reading 2)

 

 

Week
#5
Oct 31, Thur

Nov 1, Fri

Suffix Trees, Suffix Arrays

Lecture Slides

 

 

Week
#6
Nov 7, Thur

Nov 8, Fri

Patterns, Profiles, and Multiple Alignments

Hidden Markov Models

Lecture Slides

Chapter 6 from the textbook

 

 

Week
#7
Nov 14, Thur

Nov 15, Fri

Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms

Week 5 Lecture Slides Continued
 

 

Assignment #2
DUE DATE: November 29, 23:55 via COW or hardcopy
Week
#8
Nov 21, Thur


Nov 22, Fri

Phylogenetic trees
Lecture Slides

 

 

 

Week
#9
Nov 28, Thur

Nov 29, Fri

Introduction to protein structures

Lecture Slides

Midterm Exam (at 9:40)
in BMB-4 and BMB-5

Last year's midterm
 

 

 

Week
#10
Dec 5, Thur


Dec 6, Fri

Protein Structure Prediction

Lecture Slides (continued)

 

 

 

 

Week
#11
Dec 12, Thur

Dec 13, Fri

Structural Alignment of Proteins
(lecture notes continued)
 

 

Assignment #3
DUE DATE: December 29, 23:55 via COW
 

Week
#12
Dec 19, Thur

Dec 20, Fri

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
#13
Dec 26, Thur

Dec 27, Fri

Introduction to Systems Biology

Gene regulatory networks

Lecture Slides

 
 
Week
#14
Jan 2, Thur

Jan 3, Fri

Analysis of biological networks

Lecture Slides

 

 

Assignment #4
DUE DATE: January 19, 23:55 via COW
 
Week
#15
Jan 9, Thur

Jam 10, Fri

Theoretical computational models for systems biology

Reading: Algorithmic Systems Biology
A systems view of protein-protein interactions

A systems view of metabolism

A systems view of regulatory mechanisms