BCB 410 Applied Bioinformatics
Fall 2008 - Course Webpage

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Course Announcements:

Instructor:  Ryan Lilien;  email:  bcb410 <<at>> cs <dot> toronto <dot> edu
TA:  Navdeep Jaitly, Pratt 286,  email:  bcb410-ta <<at>> cs <dot> toronto <<dot> edu
Lectures:  Mondays 10-12noon, Pratt 266  (Note: On Sept 29th we will be in Pratt 376)
Office Hours:
  Ryan: Mondays 4-5:30p, please email ahead of time, Pratt 286A; Navdeep (by appointment)

Text:  Protein Bioinformatics: An Algorithmic Approach to Sequence and Structure Analysis, Eidhammer, Jonassen, and Taylor (Click Here for Possible Retailers)
Text Errata:
  Download here

Course Information Sheet (here)

A list of useful Biological Terms



Tentative Course Outline:

Week Topic
1 (8/9) Course Overview, CompBio Intro, Bio Review
2 (15/9) Unit 1 (week 1):  Sequence Alignment, Assembly, Phylogenitic/Evolutionary Trees
3 (22/9) Unit 1 (week 2)
4 (29/9) Unit 1 (week 3)
5 (6/10) Finish Unit 1; Start Unit 2:  Structure Alignment, Prediction, Determination, Modeling
6 (13/10) Thanksgiving - No class
7 (20/10) Unit 2 (week 1)
8 (27/10) Unit 2 (week 2)
9 (3/11) -- IN-CLASS EXAM, 10-11am --   Navdeep Jaitly special Mass Spectrometry lecture 11-12
10 (10/11) Unit 2 (week 3)
11 (17/11) Unit 2 (week 4)
12 (24/11) Unit 3 (week 1):  DNA Microarrays
13 (1/12) Unit 4 (week 1):  Protein Networks and Systems Biology