Bioinformatics (2016/2017)

Preliminary Course Plan

TimeDateTeacherTopics
Reading period week 1
13:15 Monday 16 January GK Lecture: Introduction; Perl (1); Working with Linux
15:15 Monday 16 January GK Lecture: Introduction; Perl (1); Working with Linux (should finish early)
08:00 Thursday 19 January GK Lecture: Perl (2)
10:00 Thursday 19 January GK Practical 1: Perl (1)
Reading period week 2
08:00 Thursday 26 January GK Lecture: Pairwise sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 26 January GK Practical 2: Perl (2), Pairwise sequence alignment
15:15 Friday 27 January MAF Lecture: Markov chains (local access only)
1 1.1-1.6 (optional), 2.1.1
Reading period week 3
08:00 Thursday 2 February GK Lecture: Perl (3)
10:00 Thursday 2 February GK Practical 3: Perl (3)
15:15 Friday 3 February GK Lecture: Sequence alignment
Reading period week 4
08:00 Thursday 9 February GK Lecture: Molecular phylogeny and multiple sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 9 February MAF Lecture: Hidden Markov models (HMMs) (local access only)
1 2.1.2-2.1.6
15:15 Friday 10 February Lecture: Next Generation Sequencing
Reading period week 5
08:00 Thursday 16 February GK Lecture: More on Perl and sequence alignment
10:00 Thursday 16 February GK Practical 4: Perl (4)
Reading period week 6
08:00 Thursday 23 February Lecture: Metagenomics and RNA-seq
10:00 Thursday 23 February Practical 5: Resequencing analysis
15:15 Friday 24 February MAF Lecture: Training HMMs (local access only)
1 6.1-6.5
Reading period week 7
08:00 Thursday 2 March GK Practical 6: Perl (5)
10:00 Thursday 2 March MDL Lecture: Identifying a disease causing mutation
11:00 Thursday 2 March MAF Exercises: HMMs
15:15 Friday 3 March MAF Lecture: Pair HMMs (local access only)
1 2.2, 3.1.2-3.1.5, 3.1.7, 3.2.9
Reading period week 8
08:00 Thursday 9 March AS Lecture: HMM applications
10:00 Thursday 9 March GK/MAF Practical 7: Perl (6); HMMs
 

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


Last Modified: 9 March 2017 by Graham Kemp