Principles of Computational Biology

Instructors: Teresa Przytycka, PhD and Igor Rogozin, PhD

Syllabus 2009

• Sept. 14, 2009. Introduction to cell biology. Basic information theory in the context of biological seqeunces.
  • Lecture 1
  • homework #1
• Sept. 21, 2009. Pairwise Sequence Alignment
  • Lecture 2
  • homework #2
• Sept 28, 2009. Substitution matrices
  • Lecture 3
• Oct 5, 2009. Data Base Seraches
  • Lecture 4
  • homework #3
• Oct 12, 2009. Multiple sequence alignment.
  • Lecture 5
• Oct 19 2009. HMM
  • Lecture 6
  • homework #4
• Oct 26, 2009. Gene Finding
  • Lecture 7
• Nov 2, 2009. Phylogentic Trees
  • Lecture 8
  • homework #5
• Nov 9, 2009. Motif Finding
  • Lecture 9
• Nov 16, 2009. Intorudcition to BBiological Netowrks
  • Lecture 10
  • homework #6
• Nov 23, 2009. TBA
  • Lecture 11
• Nov 30, 2009. TBA
  • Lecture 12
• Dec 7, 2009. Review and discussion
  • Lecture 13