| Date |
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| 1/13 | A primer in molecular genetics (Dr. Elizabeth Walsh) |
| 1/15 | A primer in molecular genetics, cont'd (Dr. Elizabeth Walsh) |
| 1/20 | Exercise 1: DNA, codons, translation, amino acids |
| 1/22 | Discussion: Gene prediction, codon usage |
| 1/27 | Exercise 2: Genome sizes and genome sequencing projects |
| 1/29 | Exercise 3: Retrieving data from public Databases |
| 2/3 | Development and challenges in bioinformatics |
| 2/5 | Sequence Alignment: Scoring similarity |
| 2/10 | Sequence Alignment: Dynamic programming algorithm, Exercise 4. |
| 2/12 | Sequence Alignment with EMBOSS, Exercise 5. |
| 2/17 | BLAST |
| 2/19 | Class Discussion |
| 2/24 | In class test |
| 2/26 | BLAST algorithm and statistics |
| 3/2 | BLOSUM matrix |
| 3/4 | In class exercise on random sequence model. |
| 3/9 | In class exercise on the chi-square statistics |
| 3/11 | In class exercise on estimation |
| 3/16 | Spring Break |
| 3/18 | Spring Break |
| 3/23 | Sequence Composition |
| 3/25 | Random sequence Models |
| 3/30 | Rolling die versus Markov sequence models |
| 4/1 | Theory of Markov chains |
| 4/6 | Theory of Markov chains |
| 4/8 | Overview of final project |
| 4/13 | Introduction to Microarrays |
| 4/15 | cDNA array data normalization |
| 4/20 | Affymetrix Data |
| 4/22 | Discussion of microarray data normalization |
| 4/27 | Student Presentation - Project A |
| 4/29 | Wrap-up |
| 5/6 | Written report for final project due |