Sp05:CSE291: Advanced Topics in Computational Molecular Biology


Instructors: Vineet Bafna and Pavel A. Pevzner

Lectures: TR 5-6:20, HSS2305

Office hours:
Vineet Bafna APM3832: by appointment
Pavel A. Pevzner APM4802: by appointment

Course Information:

Background

The course should be self-contained. Some familiarity with algorithms is required.

Lectures

Lecture Topic Slides Suggested Reading
3/29/05 Population Genetics Basics
Hardy Weinberg equilibrium
Linkage disequilibrium
SNPs
L1 (pdf) , L1 (ppt) See Hartl Clark
3/31/05 Coalescent theory L2 (pdf) , L2 (ppt) Nordborg's paper
4/5/05 Coalescent applications
Population Sub-structure
L3 L3 (ppt) Coalescent applications
STRUCTURE
Human Pop. structure
4/7/05 Population sub-structure (admixture)
Admixture mapping
Recombination lower bounds
L4 , L4 (ppt) Admixture mapping
Admixture mapping 2
Ptak et al.
Myers Grifiths
Bafna-Bansal
4/12/05 Estimating Recombination rate
Recombination hotspots
L4 (ppt) , Ptak et al.
Stumpf
Full likelihood
Two locus
4/14/05 Haplotype phasing L6 (ppt) ML
Phase
PPH