Computational methods in bioinformatics (2016-2017)

Lectures (Preliminary)

Date (and time)Topic
Monday 31 October Introduction
Wednesday 2 November Pairwise sequence alignment
Monday 7 November Protein conformation; Protein domains
Wednesday 9 November Macromolecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography
Monday 14 November (08:00) Macromolecular structure determination by NMR spectroscopy
Monday 14 November (13:15) Alexander Schliep
Identification of Copy Number Variants using Hidden Markov Models (local access)
Wednesday 16 November Molecular mechanics;
Monte Carlo algorithms;
Comparative modelling;
Side chain modelling
Monday 21 November Fold recognition;
De novo protein modelling;
Lattice models
Monday 28 November Protein design;
Structural alignment;
Surface representation
Wednesday 30 November Docking;
Channels;
Multi-resolution modelling
Monday 5 December (08:00) Alexander Schliep
Compressive Genomics (local access)
Monday 5 December (13:15) Guest lecture: Martin Frank (Biognos AB)
Application of Molecular Modeling Methods in Life Sciences
Monday 12 December Presentations on individual topics
Wednesday 14 December Presentations on individual topics

Last Modified: 6 December 2016 by Graham Kemp