CS 9633

Bioinformatics

Spring 2002

Tentative Course Schedule

DateTopicPresenter
1/7 Course information and overview. All
1/9 Introduction to molecular biology Dr. Bridges
1/11 Introduction to molecular biology Dr. Bridges
1/14 Introduction to molecular biology Dr. Bridges
1/14 Guest speaker: 1pm in Butler 100
A New Framework for Biological Data Clustering using Minimum Spanning Trees
Dr. Ying Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1/16 Introduction to molecular biology Dr. Bridges
1/18 Introduction to molecular biology Dr. Bridges
1/23 Project descriptions All
1/25 Project descriptions Dr. L. Boggess projects
Dr. G. Boggess projects
1/28 Algorithms for sequence alignment Dr. Hansen
1/30 Algorithms for sequence alignment Dr. Hansen
1/30 Special talk: 2pm in Dorman Hall 128
Finding Genes in Genomic Data
Dr. John Boyle, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept.
2/1 Algorithms for sequence alignment Dr. Hansen
2/4 Hidden Markov models
Edit distance program due
Dr. L. Boggess
2/6 Hidden Markov models Dr. L. Boggess
2/8 Hidden Markov models
Half-page description of project topic due
Dr. L. Boggess
2/11 Phylogeny Dr. Jamil
2/13 Phylogeny Dr. Jamil
2/15 Phylogeny Dr. Jamil
2/18 Clustering Dr. Bridges
2/20 Clustering Dr. Bridges
2/22 Clustering Dr. Bridges
2/25 Clustering Dr. Bridges
2/27 Kohonen networks Dr. G. Boggess
3/1 Kohonen networks Dr. G. Boggess
3/4 Kohonen networks Dr. G. Boggess
3/6 Genetic algorithms Dr. G. Boggess
3/8 Genetic algorithms Dr. G. Boggess
3/18 Project progress reports Students
3/20 Project progress reports Students
3/22 NLP techniques and suffix trees Dr. L. Boggess
3/25 NLP techniques and suffix trees Dr. L. Boggess
3/27 NLP techniques and suffix trees Dr. L. Boggess
4/1 Phylogenetic trees Dr. Fishbein
4/3 Phylogenetic trees Dr. Fishbein
4/5 Database issues Dr. Jamil
4/8 Trees and progressive multiple sequence alignment Dr. Hansen
4/10 Consensus sequences, signatures, profiles, and hidden Markov models Dr. Hansen
4/12 More about profiles and hidden Markov models Dr. Hansen
4/15 Project presentations Ming Yan, "Memory-bounded sequence alignment methods"
German Florez, "Gene expression analysis using clustering by committee"
4/17 Project presentations Yong Wang, "A comparison of different methods of biological sequence classification"
Gaurav Marwah, "Bidirectional search for multiple sequence alignment"
4/19 Project presetations Rong Zhou, "Improved search heuristics for multiple sequence alignment"
Xiaoying Tan, "Some approximation methods for multiple sequence alignment"
4/22 Project presentations Liangyou Chen, TBA
Jianming Shi, TBA
4/24 Project presentations Xiufeng Wan, "Identification of transcription initiaion and translation initiation"
Hui Zian, TBA
4/26 Project presentations Zhijie Guan, TBA
Wei Li, TBA
4/29 Project presentations Shelley Ford, "Multiple sequence alignment using genetic algorithms"
Yin Liu, TBA
5/1 Project reports due

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