BCB 410 Applied Bioinformatics
Fall 2009 - Course Webpage

Home | Lecture Notes & Readings | AssignmentsAnimations & Links


Course Announcements:

Instructor:  Ryan Lilien;  email:  bcb410 <<at>> cs <dot> toronto <dot> edu
Lectures:  Mondays 10-12noon, Pratt 378
Office Hours:
  Ryan: Mondays 4-5:30p, please email ahead of time, Pratt 286A

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 (14/9) Course Overview, CompBio Intro, Bio Review
2 (21/9) Unit 1 (week 1):  Sequence Alignment, Assembly, Phylogenitic/Evolutionary Trees
3 (28/9) Unit 1 (week 2)
4 (5/10) Unit 1 (week 3)
5 (12/10) Thanksgiving - No class
6 (19/10) Unit 2 (week 1):  Structure Alignment, Prediction, Determination, Modeling
7 (26/10) Unit 2 (week 2)
8 (2/11) .. no class ..
9 (6/11) Make up date  -- EXAM, 2pm --
10 (9/11) Unit 2 (week 3)
11 (16/11) Unit 2 (week 4)
12 (23/11) Unit 3 (week 1):  DNA Microarrays
13 (30/11) Unit 4 (week 1):  Protein Networks and Systems Biology