Bioinformatics (2013/2014)

Preliminary Course Plan

TimeDateTeacherTopics
13:15 Monday 20 January GK Lecture: Introduction; Pairwise sequence alignment
15:15 Monday 20 January GK Lecture: Pairwise sequence alignment (should finish early)
08:00 Thursday 23 January GK Lecture: Perl (1)
10:00 Thursday 24 January GK Practical 1: Pairwise sequence alignment
 
13:15 Monday 27 January MP Lecture: Markov chains
15:15 Monday 27 January GK Lecture: Perl (2)
08:00 Thursday 30 January GK Lecture: Perl (2)
10:00 Thursday 30 January GK Practical 2: Perl (1)
15:15 Friday 31 January MP Lecture: Markov chains (local access only)
 
13:15 Monday 3 February MP Lecture: Hidden Markov models (HMMs)
15:15 Monday 3 February TS Lecture: Molecular phylogeny
08:00 Thursday 6 February GK Lecture: Perl (3)
10:00 Thursday 6 February GK Practical 3: Perl (2)
13:15 Thursday 6 February TS Lecture: Molecular phylogeny
15:15 Friday 7 February MP Lecture: Hidden Markov models (HMMs) (local access only)
 
08:00 Thursday 13 February GK Lecture: Sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 13 February GK Practical 4: Perl (3)
15:15 Friday 14 February MP Lecture: Baum-Welch and Generalized HMMs (GHMMs) (local access only)
 
15:15 Wednesday 19 February MDL/GK Exome sequencing and analysis (slides updated, 2014-02-24)
08:00 Thursday 20 February GK Lecture: More on Perl and sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 20 February GK Practical 5: Perl (4)
15:15 Friday 21 February MP Lecture: Pair HMMs (PHMMs), GPHMMs and comparative genomics
 
08:00 Thursday 27 February FB Lecture: HMMER and applications; large-scale DNA sequence analysis ;
10:00 Thursday 27 February GK/MP Practical 6: Pairwise alignment and Perl revision; HMM exercises
 
10:00 Thursday 6 March GK/MP Practical: Perl revision; HMM exercises
 
08:30 Monday 10 March   Exam

Last Modified: 5 March 2014 by Graham Kemp