Class Schedule:
| Date | Lecture topic | Instructor | Reading Assignment |
| 29-Aug | Intro/Molecular Biology Review | Eric Polinko | |
| 31-Aug | Introduction to CompBio/Bioinformatics | EP | Ch1: 1-13, 17-19 |
| 2-Sep | **LAB** The Internet, Networking, & Unix | EP | |
| 5-Sep | ***NO CLASS - LABOR DAY*** | ||
| 7-Sep | Genomics I | EP | |
| 9-Sep | **LAB** NCBI & UniProt
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EP |
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| 12-Sep | Genomics vs Proteomics **Project Part I due** |
EP | Ch 1: 20-26, 32-36 |
14-Sep | Sequencing Genomes |
Dan Russell |
| 16-Sep | Proteomics |
EP | Ch 9: 380-385, 391-394, 402 |
| 19-Sep | Turning Junk (DNA) into Gold |
Mark Rebeiz | |
| 21-Sep | **LAB** GenePalatte | MR | |
| 23-Sep | Biological Sequence Databases |
EP | Ch 4: 149-157, 177-183 |
| 26-Sep | Sequence Database Searching - Scoring Matrices | EP | Ch 4: 162-167 |
| 28-Sep | Gene Expression Analysis using MicroArrays | Uma Chandran | Ch 9: 394-402 |
| 30-Sep | Sequence Database Searching - Algorithms |
EP | |
| 3-Oct | **LAB**ClustalX/Jalview |
EP | Ch 4: 162-167 |
| 5-Oct | Sequence Database Searching - BLAST & Statistics | EP | Ch 4: 168-169 |
| 7-Oct | Phylogenetics |
Tony Bledsoe | |
| 10-Oct | ***FALL BREAK - CLASS ON TUESDAY*** | ||
| 11-Oct | Comparative Genomics of BacterioPhage | Graham Hatfull | |
| 12-Oct | Comparative Genomics of Bacteria | Jon Boyle |
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| 14-Oct | Viral Metagenomics | Joshua Katz | |
| 17-Oct | Multiple Sequence Alignment & Psi-Blast | EP | Ch 4: 170-176 |
| 19-Oct | **LAB** - Advanced Jalview & Exam Review |
EP | |
| 21-Oct | EXAM I | EP | |
| 24-Oct | Mass Spectrometry | Mark Bier | Ch 9: 386-391 |
| 26-Oct | **LAB** - Protein ID via Virtual Mass Spec | MB | |
| 28-Oct | Intro to Protein Structure |
Swarna Mohan | Ch2: 42-52 |
| 31-Oct | Solving Protein Structure via X-ray Crystallography | Andy VanDemark | Ch3: 96-111 |
| 2-Nov | **LAB** - VMD (Project Part III due) |
EP | Ch1: 20-21 |
| 4-Nov | Hidden Markov Models | Sabah Kadri | |
| 7-Nov | **LAB** - WinCoot | Andy VanDemark | |
| 9-Nov | Molecular Dynamics I | Joshua Adelman | Ch3: 137-139 |
| 11-Nov | Molecular Dynamics II | JA | |
| 14-Nov | Molecular Simulation Approaches | Lillian Chong | |
| 16-Nov | **LAB** - NAMD | JA | |
| 18-Nov | **LAB** - NAMD | JA | |
| 21-Nov | **LAB**- Visualize/Analyze MD |
JA | |
| 23/25-Nov | ***NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING*** | ||
| 28-Nov | QM/MM |
Troy Wymore | |
| 30-Nov | Bioinf/CompBio career day |
Adam Kraut | |
| 2-Dec | Brain Imaging | Greg Hood | |
| 5-Dec | Visualization & Analysis of Volumetric Biomedical Images |
Art Wetzel | |
| 7-Dec | EXAM II | ||
| 9-Dec | **LAB** - 3D room at NBRSC | Hood & Wetzel | |
| 16-Dec | FINAL ==> Project Presentations (9-10:50am) | ||
Last Updated: 1 December 2011
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