Algorithms for Computational Biology

Calendar

Lec #	Topics	key dates
1	Introduction and Biological Databases
2	Rapid Database Search (Hashing)
3	Regulatory Motif Discovery (Combinatorial Search)	Assignment 1 out
4	Probabilistic Motif Finding (Gibbs Sampling)
5	Sequence Alignment (Dynamic Programming)	Assignment 1 due
6	Markov Chains and Hidden Markov Models
7	Gene Finding
8	Genome Evolution and Phylogenetic Trees	Assignment 2 out
9	Genome Duplication
10	Gene Expression Clustering
11-12	Gene Network and Inference	Assignment 2 due
13	Scale-free Networks	Assignment 3 due
14	Comparative Genomics	Assignment 4 due