Bioinformatics (2015/2016)

Preliminary Course Plan

TimeDateTeacherTopics
Reading period week 1
13:15 Monday 18 January GK Lecture: Introduction; Perl (1); Working with Linux
15:15 Monday 18 January GK Lecture: Introduction; Perl (1); Working with Linux (should finish early)
08:00 Thursday 21 January GK Lecture: Perl (2)
10:00 Thursday 21 January GK Practical 1: Perl (1)
Reading period week 2
08:00 Thursday 28 January GK Lecture: Pairwise sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 28 January GK Practical 2: Perl (2), Pairwise sequence alignment
15:15 Friday 29 January MP Lecture: Markov chains (local access only)
1 1.1-1.6 (optional), 2.1.1
Reading period week 3
08:00 Thursday 4 February GK Lecture: Perl (3)
10:00 Thursday 4 February TS Lecture: Molecular phylogeny
15:15 Friday 5 February MP Lecture: Hidden Markov models (HMMs) (local access only)
1 2.1.2-2.1.6
Reading period week 4
08:00 Thursday 11 February GK Lecture: Sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 11 February GK Practical 3: Perl (3)
15:15 Friday 12 February Lecture: Next Generation Sequencing
Reading period week 5
08:00 Thursday 18 February GK Lecture: More on Perl and sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 18 February GK Practical 4: Perl (4)
08:00 Thursday 18 February Lecture: Metagenomics
10:00 Thursday 18 February Practical 4: Resequencing analysis
Reading period week 6
08:00 Thursday 25 February Lecture: Metagenomics
10:00 Thursday 25 February/td> Practical 5: Resequencing analysis
08:00 Thursday 25 February GK Lecture: More on Perl and sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 25 February GK Practical 5: Perl (4)
15:15 Friday 26 February MP Lecture: Training HMMs (local access only)
1 6.1-6.5
Reading period week 7
08:00 Thursday 3 March GK Practical 6: Perl (5)
10:00 Thursday 3 March MDL Lecture: Identifying a disease causing mutation
11:00 Thursday 3 March MP Exercises: HMMs
15:15 Friday 4 March MP Lecture: Pair HMMs (local access only)
1 3.1.7
Reading period week 8
08:00 Thursday 10 March FB Lecture: HMMER and applications; large-scale DNA sequence analysis
10:00 Thursday 10 March GK/MP Practical 7: Perl (6); HMMs
 
08:30 Monday 14 March   Exam

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


Last Modified: 11 March 2016 by Graham Kemp