Tentative schedule (it will be updated as changes occur):
dates and tasks | Lecture Contents: | textbook
sections and extra materials |
---|---|---|
Sep 9 | Course overview/admin; Intro to Molecular Biology | L01: Course handout; Ch 1; 01Introduction.pdf |
Sep 13, 16 | Intro to Molecular Biology (cont'd) Review Dynamic Programming; Sequence Similarity |
L02: Ch1, 02MolecularBiologyII.pdf, 02_B_Turcotte L1 p42-175, Body Code (movie)/source L03: Ch 2, 03-05SequenceSimilarity.pdf |
Sep 20,23 | Sequence Similarity | Ch 2, 03-05SequenceSimilarity.pdf |
Sep 30 | Suffix Trees and variants | Ch 3, 06Turcotte_lect02-2.pdf (p.1-14,21-62)
07-09Turcotte_lect03.pdf (p.1-23) |
Oct 7 (A1 due) | Suffix trees & variants: applications | Ch 3,
07-09Turcotte_lect03.pdf (p.24-46)
Ch 3,07-09Turcotte_lect03.pdf (p.47-101),
09SuffixTreesAndVariants.pdf |
Oct 14 | Genome Alignment | Ch. 4, 10-11GenomeAlignment.pdf |
Oct 21 (A2 due) | Multiple alignment | Ch 6, 12-13MultipleAlignment.pdf |
Oct 23-29 | Study break. | - |
Nov 4 | Student Presentations | Presence is compulsory to all talks. |
Nov 11 | Phylogeny Reconstruction | Ch 7, 14InferingPhylogeny_Turcotte.pdf |
Nov 18 | Phylogeny Reconstruction | Ch 7, 16-17PhylogenyReconstruction.pdf |
Nov 25 | Class contents to be posted; Guest Lecture | Class; Guest lecture with Marcel Turcotte. |
Dec 2 (A3 due) | Genome Rearrangement (Guest Lectures) |
Presence is compulsory to all guest lecture. Guest lectures with Kubo Kovac and Maryam Haghighi. |
Dec 6 | Project Presentations | Presence is compulsory to all talks. |