|  | 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 
 
 
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 Lectures
Lectures
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 WashingtonBioinformatics Programs in the World
Bioinformatics ProgramsBioinformatics Organizations and Jobs
International Scociety of Computational Biology