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M.sc. course   #27011

Introduction to Bioinformatics

Autumn 2002


Course Programme

The classes will be held Tuesdays from 13:00 - 17:00 in building 208, auditorium 51.
The first lecture will be on Tuesday, September 3. The course will end on Tuesday, December 3.
Need to brush up on basic molecular biology? Select any of these on-line primers/textbooks:

Genomics 101       CSH: DNA from the beginning


Computer exercises: general instructions

Tuesday 3/9 S. Brunak and S. Knudsen: Introduction.
A.G. Pedersen: Pairwise alignment
(W.R. Pearson, "Protein Sequence Comparison and Protein Evolution", binder, p. 1-27)
Tuesday 10/9 A.G.Pedersen: Database searching
(W.R. Pearson, "Protein Sequence Comparison and Protein Evolution", binder, p. 27-53)
A.G. Pedersen: Multiple alignment
(No reading required)
Tuesday 17/9 A.G. Pedersen: Molecular Phylogeny
("Molecular Phylogenetics: Methods": chapter 5 from W.H.Li, "Molecular Evolution". Xerox of this chapter is included in the binder)
Tuesday 24/9 N. Blom: Gene Finding Exercises
Gene finding
("Finding the genes in genomic DNA", C.B.Burge & S.Karlin (1998), Curr.Op.Struc.Biol. 8:346-354; in binder ; Optional background reading on Hidden Markov Models: "An introduction to Hidden Markov Models for Biological Sequences" A.Krogh (2002); in binder)
Tuesday 1/10 S. Brunak: Non-linear prediction by neural networks, sequence and category representation, internal representation of sequence space, signal peptide prediction, cross-validation and performance measures.
(Baldi and Brunak: Chapter 5 and 6.4, binder: Linjedeling med neuralt netvaerk)
Tuesday 8/10 S. Brunak: Neural network model of the genetic code, intron splice site prediction, neural network weight analysis, training a neural network for protein secondary structure prediction.
(Baldi and Brunak: Chapter 6)
S. Brunak: Predicting post-translational modifications using neural networks.
See slides on PTMs in binder
Performance evaluation

Autumn holiday

Tuesday 22/10 S. Brunak: Prediction of protein secondary and tertiary structure, protein function
(Baldi and Brunak: Chapter 6)
Tuesday 29/10 D. Ussery: DNA symmetry elements and their meanings
See binder for papers on atlases.
D. Ussery: A DNA Structural Atlas for Escherichia coli
Tuesday 5/11 S. Knudsen: Analysis of DNA Microarray Data
(Baldi and Brunak: pp 5-11; Binder: Analysis of DNA Array Data.
N. Tolstrup, Exiqon A/S: Guest Lecture - Bioinformatics in an industrial setting
Tuesday 12/11Start of individual projects. Show up for lecture only if you have not yet signed up on web.
12/11-3/12 Individual Projects
Tuesday 3/12 Reports due

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