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Spring 2014

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Graduate

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Engineering
- Biological Engineering
  - Computational Biology
- Systems Engineering
  - Computational Modeling and Simulation
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- Biology
  - Computation and Systems Biology

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Lecture Videos

Lecture 1: Introduction to Computational and Systems Biology

Lecture 2: Local Alignment (BLAST) and Statistics

Lecture 3: Global Alignment of Protein Sequences (NW, SW, PAM, BLOSUM)

Lecture 4: Comparative Genomic Analysis of Gene Regulation

Lecture 5: Library Complexity and Short Read Alignment (Mapping)

Lecture 6: Genome Assembly

Leture 7: ChIP-seq Analysis; DNA-protein Interactions

Lecture 8: RNA-sequence Analysis: Expression, Isoforms

Lecture 9: Modeling and Discovery of Sequence Motifs

Lecture 10: Markov and Hidden Markov Models of Genomic and Protein Features

Assignments

Problem Set 1:Questions-Sequence search, global alignment, BLAST statistics

Problem Set 1:Solutions-Sequence search, global alignment, BLAST statistics

Problem Set 2:Questions- BWT, Library complexity, RNA-seq, Genome assembly, Motifs, Multiple hypothesis testing

Problem Set 2:Solutions- BWT, Library complexity, RNA-seq, Genome assembly, Motifs, Multiple hypothesis testing

pset_2_coding_portion.zip

Problem Set 3:Questions- Gibbs Sampler, RNA secondary structure, Protein Structure with PyRosetta, Connections

Problem Set 3:Solutions- Gibbs Sampler, RNA secondary structure, Protein Structure with PyRosetta, Connections

Problem_set_3.zip

Problem Set 4:Questions- Bayesian Networks, Refining Protein Structures in PyRosetta, Mutual information of protein residues

Problem Set 4:Solution- Bayesian Networks, Refining Protein Structures in PyRosetta, Mutual information of protein residues

Lecture Notes

Lecture1: Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology

Lecture2: Local Alignment (BLAST) and Statistics

Lecture3: Global Alignment of Protein Sequences

Lecture4: Comparative Genomics

Lecture 5: Library complexity and BWT

Lecture6: Genome Assembly

Lecture7: ChIP-Seq analysis; DNA-protein interactions

Lecture8: RNA-sequence analysis: expression, isoforms

Lecture 9: Modeling and Discovery of Sequence Motifs

Lecture 10: Markov and Hidden Markov Models of Genomic and Protein Features

Recitations

Recitaion 1: Review of topics covered in Lectures 2 and 3

Recitation 1: Statistics; Significance Testing; Bonferroni Correction

Recitation 2: Clustering, Model Selection, and BIC scores

Recitation 2: Review of topics covered in Lecture 4

Recitation 5: Gene Expression Program Discovery Using Topic Models

Recitation 5: Review of topics covered in Lectures 5 and 6

Recitation 5: Review of topics covered in Lectures 7 and 8

Recitation 6: Review of topics covered in Lecture 9 and 10

Recitation 7: Review of topics covered in Lecture 10

Recitation 8: Review of topics covered in Lectures 12 and 13

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