Bioinformatics (2014/2015)

Preliminary Course Plan

TimeDateTeacherTopics
Reading period week 1
13:15 Monday 19 January GK Lecture: Introduction; Perl (1); Working with Linux
15:15 Monday 19 January GK Lecture: Introduction; Perl (1); Working with Linux (should finish early)
08:00 Thursday 22 January GK Lecture: Perl (2)
10:00 Thursday 22 January GK Practical 1: Perl (1)
Reading period week 2
08:00 Thursday 29 January GK Lecture: Pairwise sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 29 January GK Practical 2: Perl (2), Pairwise sequence alignment
15:15 Friday 30 January MP Lecture: Markov chains
1 1.1-1.6 (optional), 2.1.1
Reading period week 3
08:00 Thursday 5 February GK Lecture: Perl (3)
10:00 Thursday 5 February TS Lecture: Molecular phylogeny
15:15 Friday 6 February MP Lecture: Hidden Markov models (HMMs)
1 2.1.2-2.1.6
Reading period week 4
08:00 Thursday 12 February GK Lecture: Sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 12 February GK Practical 3: Perl (3)
15:15 Friday 13 February Lecture: Next Generation Sequencing
Reading period week 5
08:00 Thursday 19 February GK Lecture: More on Perl and sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 19 February GK Practical 4: Perl (4)
Reading period week 6
08:00 Thursday 26 February Lecture: Metagenomics
10:00 Thursday 26 February Practical 5: Resequencing analysis
15:15 Friday 27 February MP Lecture: Training HMMs
1 6.1-6.5
Reading period week 7
08:00 Thursday 5 March GK Practical 6: Perl (5)
10:00 Thursday 5 March MDL Lecture: Identifying a disease causing mutation
15:15 Friday 6 March MP Lecture: gHMM and profile HMMs
1 2.2, 3.1.2-3.1.5, 3.1.7, 3.2.9
Reading period week 8
08:00 Thursday 12 March FB Lecture: HMMER and applications; large-scale DNA sequence analysis
10:00 Thursday 12 March GK/MP Practical 7: Pairwise alignment and Perl revision; HMM exercises
 
08:30 Monday 16 March   Exam

1Axelsson-Fisk, M. (2010) Comparative Gene Finding: Models, Algorithms and Implementation, Springer.


Last Modified: 1 March 2015 by Graham Kemp