Welcome to Bioinformatics 1 WS 2012
This page is dedicated to Bioinformatics 1 course taught in winter semester 2012. The lectures will start on October 11, at 10:00 sharp. Location: Institute of Botany lecture hall (SBI HS), Schlossgarten 3.
Lecturers
- Prof. Wojciech Makalowski; office hours: by appointment via e-mail (Niels Stensen Strasse 14)
- Prof. Claudia Aquisti; office hours: Wednesday 3-5 PM (Hüfferstrasse 1)
Instructors
- Jasmin Dröge; office hours: Tuesday 3-4 PM (Niels Stensen Strasse 14)
- Amit Pande; office hours: Thursday 1-2 PM (Niels Stensen Strasse 14)
- Dorota Buczek; office hours: Friday 10-11 AM (Niels Stensen Strasse 12)
- Marcin Jakalski; office hours: Wednesday 3-4 PM (Niels Stensen Strasse 14)
- Stefanie Henze; office hours: Monday 3-4 PM (Huefferstrasse 1)
- Parijat Tripathi; office hours: Thursday 4-5 PM (Huefferstrasse 1)
Syllabus
Thursday at 10:00 - 12:00
| Date | Topic | Handouts |
|---|---|---|
| 11. October | Introduction to bioinformatics from the evolutionary perspective (WM) | [Slides] |
| 18. October | Sequence alignments and similarity searches (WM) | [Slides] |
| 25. October | Sequence assembly and gene prediction (WM) | [Slides] |
| 8. November | Principles of heridity. Mutations, substitutions and polymorphisms (CA) | [Slides] |
| 15. November | Distances and models. Synonymous and non-synonymous substitutions. Basics of the neutral theory. (CA) | [Slides] |
| 22. November | Phylogenetic trees (Distance-based, Parsimony, Maximum Likelihood) (CA) | [Slides] |
| 29. November | Population variation (CA) | [Slides] |
Practicals - Computer Lab
Six groups (limit - twenty students per group): Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 8:00 - 10:00 and 10:00 - 12:00
| Week | Topic | Instructors |
|---|---|---|
| 12. - 16. November | Sequence alignments and BLAST | (DB and AP) |
| 19. - 23. November | Gene prediction | (JD and MJ) |
| 26. - 30. November | Phylogenetic inference | (SH and PT) |
Download sequence for phylogenetic analysis from: here
Registration: here
Recommended textbooks
Please note that there is no specific textbook that we follow but these two books cover all the material plus some extras.
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