CAP5937: Introduction to Bioinformatics

 

Instructor: Dr. Jianlin Cheng

Class Location: ENG I 383

Time: MW 3pm to 4:15 pm

Office Hours: MW 4:15pm to 6:00pm in CSB 250

TA: Shuxin Li (sli@cs.ucf.edu)

Semester: Fall, 2006

 

 

 

Syllabus

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       I am creating slides for the lectures which are posted here as soon as they are available.

           Introduction     Pairwise Alignmnent (I)     Pairwise Alignment (II)     Pairwise Alignment (III)     BLAST, Profile, and PSI-BLAST
           Global Multiple Sequence Alignment     Local Multiple Sequence Alignment and Motif     Gene Prediction     Phylogeny Tree Algorithms
           RNA Secondary Structure Prediction     Gene Expression Data Analysis     Search of Biological Databases and Literature
           Analysis and Prediction of Protein Structure (I)     Analysis and Prediction of Protein Structure (II)

Homework

   Week 1: Read Chapter 1 of Mount's book or Tompa's introduction to molecular biology. (not graded)    Week 2 and 3: Homework 2. Due on 9/13/2006.

Project

Exam

Introduction to Molecular Biology

Video Lectures of Modelcular Biology by Eric Lander and Robert Weinberg at MIT (strongly recommended for the people who are interested in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics)

External Bioinformatics Courses (more to add)

Martin Tompa's Class at University of Washington
Jonathan Pevsner's Class at Hopkins University
Doug Brutlag's Class at Stanford University
Burkhard Rost's Class at Columbia University
Mona Singh's Class at Princeton University
Mark Gerstein's Class at Yale University
Robert Murphy's class at Carnegie Mellon University
Ambuj Singh's Class at Universiyt of California Santa Babara
MIT Mini Bioinformatics Course
Gifford, Jaakkola, Bartel, Gerber's Class at MIT

Bioinformatics Programs in the World

Bioinformatics Programs

Bioinformatics Organizations and Jobs

International Scociety of Computational Biology
ISCB Job Board
BioPlanet Job
Bioinformatics Org Job
Collection of Job Boards
Bioinformatics News, Trends, Jobs, and Technologies
Bioinfo World