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Information for participants

GENERAL SCHEDULE
Lectures will be in the morning from 9.00 - 12.00, and exercises in the afternoon from 13.00 - 17.00.

The morning sessions will consist of lectures and small practical exercises introducing the different algorithms, and the afternoon sessions will consist of programming exercises where the algorithms will be implemented.

The main programming language will be C, and all program templates provided in the course will be written in C. Prior knowlegde of C programming is NOT required. However, basic programming skills are required to follow the course.

LITERATURE: The course curriculum consists of review paper and selected chapters from Immunological Bioinformatics, Lund et al., MIT Press, 2005. All course material will be made available online during the course. All course material is available here Course material.

PROGRAMS AND TOOLS

  • UNIX - Beginner's Guide to UNIX is available on-line.
  • For doing the exercises on our server you must be able to connect to the server using Secure Shell (SSH) and tunnel X through the connection.
    See informations on prerequisites on:
    Tools for SSH and X11
  • If you have problems login to the CBS server, try using the following link Login problems.

Course Programme
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LITERATURE:

O Monday, 7. January

Introduction to course, UNIX and C-programming crash course 101
Morten Nielsen

  • BACKGROUND TEXTS
    9.00 - 9.15
    Introduction to course
    Introduction to course. [PDF] .
    9.15 - 9.35
    Introduction to the immune system
    Introduction to the immune system. [PDF] .
    9.35 - 9.45
    Performance measures
    Performance measures. [PDF] .
    9.45 - 10.00
    Coffe break
    10.00 - 12.00
    Unix crash course
    A UNIX/Linux crash course
    12.00 - 13.00
    Lunch
    13.00 - 13.15
    A few notes on sequence alignment
    Some notes on sequence alignment [PDF] .
    13.15 - 17.00
    C-programming crash course 101
    Details on C routines, linked lists and C programming
    Some notes on command line parsing. [PDF].
    Doing it on your local machine
    C-programming crash course
    Answers to C-programming exercise


    O Tuesday, 8. January
    Weight matrix (PSSM) construction, and Psi-Blast
    Morten Nielsen

  • BACKGROUND TEXTS
    9.00 - 9.15
    Questions to yesterdays lectures
    9.15 - 9.30
    Blosum scoring matrices [PDF] .
    9.30 - 10.45
    Weight matrix construction. [PDF].
    Handout. Estimation of pseudo counts
    Answer
    10.45 - 11.00
    Break
    11.00 - 12.00
    Sequence profiles. [PDF] .
    12.00 - 13.00
    Lunch
    13.00 - 17.00
    Implementation of PSSM construction from pre-aligned sequences including pseudo count correction for low counts and sequence clustering
    PSSM construction and evaluation
    PSSM answers


    O Wednesday, 9. January

    Sequence alignment and Dynamic programming
    Morten Nielsen

    BACKGROUND TEXTS
    9.00 - 9.15
    Questions to yesterdays lectures
    9.15 - 10.45
    Sequence alignment [PDF] .
    Handout (O3)
    Handout (O2)
    10.45 - 11.00
    Break
    11.00 - 12.00
    Blast alignment heuristics, Psi-Blast, and sequence profiles [PDF] .
    Psi-Blast handout.
    12.00 - 13.00
    Lunch
    13.00 - 17.00
    Implementation of the Smith-Waterman Dynamic programming algorithm
    Matrix dumps from alignment programs (to be used for debugging)
    Answers to sequence alignment exercise

    O Thursday, 10. January
    Hidden Markov Models
    Morten Nielsen

  • BACKGROUND TEXTS
    9.00 - 9.15
    Questions to yesterdays lectures
    9.15 - 11.00
    Hidden Markov models (with a break around 10.30)
    Viterbi decoding, Forward/Backward algorithm, Posterior decoding, Baum-Welsh learning
    HMM slides [ PDF].
    Viterbi Handout
    Answers
    Forward Handout
    Answers
    11.00 - 12.00
    Profile Hidden Markov Models.
    12.00 - 13.00
    Lunch
    13.00 - 17.00
    Implementation of Viterbi and posterior decoding. Training of a profile Hidden Markov model using HMMer
    Hidden Markov exercises
    Answer to Hidden Markov exercises

    O Friday, 11. January
    Data redundancy reduction algortihms
    Optimizations methods
    Gibbs sampling
    Morten Nielsen

    BACKGROUND TEXTS
    9.00 - 9.15
    Questions to yesterdays lectures
    9.15 - 10.00
    Data redundancy reduction algorithms (Hobohm1 and Hobohm2). [ PDF].
    10.00 - 10.45
    Optimization procedures - Gradient decent, Monte Carlo
    Optimization procedures [PDF]
    GD handout
    10.45 - 11.00
    Break
    11.00 - 12.00
    Gibbs sampling and Gibbs clustering
    Gibbs sampling. [PDF] .
    12.00 - 13.00
    Lunch
    13.00 - 17.00
    Hobohm redundancy reduction algorithms
    Answers to Hobohm programming exercise
    Implementating of a Gibbs sampling algorithm for prediction of MHC class II binding
    Answers


    O Monday, 14. January
    Cross validation and training of data driven prediction methods. Stabilization matrix method (SMM)
    Morten Nielsen

  • BACKGROUND TEXTS
    9.00 - 9.15
    Questions to yesterdays lectures
    9.15 - 9.45
    Cross validation and training of data driven prediction methods
    Cross-validation, overfitting and method evaluation. [PDF] .
    9.45 - 10.15
    Stabilization matrix method (SMM) background
    SMM background. [PDF] .
    SMM handout
    10.15 - 10.30
    Break
    10.30 - 12.00
    Implementing and evaluating SMM algorithms using cross-validation
    12.00 - 13.00
    Lunch
    13.00 - 17.00
    Continuation of exercise

    O Tuesday, 15. January
    Artificial neural networks - I. Sequence encoding and feedforward algorithm
    Morten Nielsen

  • BACKGROUND TEXTS
    • Immunological Bioinformatics. MIT Press. Chapter 4.
    • Background
    • Feed forward algorithm
    • Sequence encoding
    • Prediction of protein secondary structure using NN
    9.00 - 9.15
    Questions to yesterdays lectures
    9.15 - 10.30
    Artificial neural networks. [PDF] .
    Handout
    10.30 - 10.45
    Break
    10.45 - 12.00
    Web exercise in construction of neural network prediction methods
    Web exercise answers
    12.00 - 13.00
    Lunch
    13.00 - 17.00
    Implementation of sequence encoding and feed forward algorithm
    Network part I answers

    O Wednesday, 16. January
    Back-propagation and neural network training
    Morten Nielsen

  • BACKGROUND TEXTS
    • Immunological Bioinformatics. MIT Press. Chapter 4.
    9.00 - 9.15
    Questions to yesterdays lectures
    9.15 - 10.45
    Network training - backpropagation
    Training of artificial neural networks.. [PDF] .
    Handout
    10.45 - 12.00
    Description of potential projects and formation of groups
    Project suggestions, and descriptions.
    12.00 - 13.00
    Lunch
    13.00 - 17.00
    Implementation of Implementation of back-propagation and neural network training


    O Thursday 17. - Thursday 24. January. Project work
    No lectures. Project work
    Projects must be submitted (in PDF format) via campusnet Thursday 24. of January 8.59 at the latest.

    O Friday, 25. January. 8.00-17.00

    Project evaluation and Exam
    Program
    8.00 - 8.40 NetMHCpan_stab (2)
    Martin Christen Frølund Thomsen
    Anne Gøther Bresciani
    Johanne Ahrenfeldt

    8.45 - 9.35 ANN using dropout (3)
    Casper Kaae Sønderby
    Jens Christian Frøslev Nielsen
    Søren Kaae Sønderby
    Johan Teleman

    9.40 - 9.55 Ms/ms fragments (4)
    Jan Christian Refsgaard

    10.00 - 10.25 Comparative PSSM, SMM, ANN (6)
    Frederic Quignon
    Hui Xiao

    10.30 - 10.55 Epitope2struc (10)
    Andreas Holm Mattsson
    Christian Garde

    11.00 - 11.40 Comparative PSSM, SMM, ANN (7)
    Katarzyna Anna Chyzynska
    Trine Hansen
    Julia Villarroel

    11.40 - 12.30 Lunch

    12.30 - 13.10 Hmmer (1)
    Cecilia Engel Thomas
    Jessica Xin Hu
    Klaus Højgaard Jensen

    13.15 - 14.05 NN reduction (8)
    Lars Roed Ingerslev
    Jesper Illemann Foldager
    Thomas Trolle
    Christian Skjødt Hansen

    14.10 - 14.50 Multi output ANN (9)
    Michael Schantz
    Mads Valdemar
    Martin Closter

    14.55 - 15.10 ANN on chipSeq (11)
    Johannes Eichler

    15.15 - 15.55 Gibbs sampling (3A)
    Jakob Berg
    Søren Dalsgård
    Helen Victoria

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