Biochem 508, Spring 2009

Computer Analysis of DNA and Protein Sequences


For 2009, Bioch508 course will be substantially reorganized, with greatly increased emphasis on Expresssion analysis, pathways, and comparative genomics.
The schedule below is from the last time Bioch508 was taught, in Spring, 2006.


Tuesday and Thursday 2:00 - 3:30
Biochemistry Library, Jordan Hall, Room 6-6

Course directors:
William R. Pearson, Jordan Hall Rm 6-057, wrp@virginia.edu and
Stefan Bekiranov, Jordan 6-054, sb3de@virginia.edu


Texts:
BIOINFORMATICS: Sequence and Genome Analysis 2nd ed., D. W. Mount (2004) Cold Spring Harbor Press ISBN 0-879-69712-1

BIOINFORMATICS FOR DUMMIES, J.-M. Claverie, C. Notredame (2003) Wiley ISBN 0-764-51696-5

BIOINFORMATICS 2nd ed., A. D. Baxevanis and B. F. Ouellette (2001) Wiley-Interscience ISBN 0-471-38391-0

Other texts


R 1/15 Introduction to Biological Sequence Analysis Lecture PDF Not Pearson

T 1/20 Protein Evolution Lecture PDF Pearson
R 1/22 Protein Evolution LAB Pearson

T 1/27 Similarity scoring matrices - Profiles/PSSMs Lecture PDF Pearson
R 1/29 Multiple sequence alignment Pearson

T 2/3 Advance comparison I - PSI-BLAST/HMMs Pearson
R 2/5 Exam I 2004 exam

T 2/10 Phylogenetics I Pearson
R 2/12 Phylogenetics II Pearson

T 2/17 PHYLIP Pearson
R 2/19 Evaluating Trees Lecture PDF Pearson

T 2/24 Phylogeny Projects I
R 2/26 Phylogeny Projects II

T 3/3 Spring Break
R 3/5 Spring Break

T 3/10 Microarrays 1 - Resources Bekiranov
R 3/12 Microarrays 2 - Analysis Bekiranov

T 3/17 Statistical Approaches Bekiranov
R 3/19 Bioconductor Bekiranov

T 3/24 Visualization 1 Bekiranov
R 3/26 Pathways 1 Bekiranov

T 3/31 Pathways 2 Bekiranov
R 4/2 Exam II

T 4/7 Genome DNA Bekiranov
R 4/9 Visualization II - Genome Browsers Bekiranov

T 4/14 Genomic DNA 2 Bekiranov
R 4/16 Genomic DNA 3 Bekiranov

T 4/21 Genomic DNA 4 Bekiranov
R 4/23 Projects I

T 4/28 Projects II
R 4/30 Possible add'nl day

T 5/5 Possible add'nl day

Introduction to Perl

Links to other Computational Biology Courses

wrp@virginia.edu

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