CSE 291a: Special Topics in Computational Biology: Post Genomic Algorithms


Instructor: Vineet Bafna

Lectures: MW, 5:00PM--6:20PM, CENTR207. First class is 9/29/03.

Meetings:
Please send e-mail to vbafna@cs.ucsd.edu

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Course Information:
See the Course Information Sheet: postscript ; pdf

Projects
Postscript ; PDF ;

Lectures
Future recommended reading is subject to change with little notice. Please note that the available manuscripts are copyright protected, and may be used only for educational purposes. The notes presented here are unedited, and may contain errors.

Week Topic Slides Scribes Suggested Reading
(PDF gzipped)
9/29/2003 Outline
RNA structure
L1 ,
L2
Lecture Notes
Nuno Bandeira,
Vikas Bansal
Rivas & Eddy
MWM
10/6/2003 RNA structure/pseudo-knots
Comparative Genomics & nc Genes
L3 slides
L3,4 Notes
Kostas Bimpikis
Jeremy Chiu
Rivas Eddy (Bioinformatics 2000)
QRNA
10/13/2003 SCFGs, comparative nc_gene finding L5 slides
L6 slides
L5 notes

L6 notes
Ali Bashir
Christine Cheng
MiRscan1
MiRscan2
Computing Similarity in RNA strings, LNCS Vol. 937, pp 1-16, 1995
10/20/2003 Population Genetics basics,
Coalescent theory,
Ancestral Recombination Graphs
Lec 7 slides
L8 slides
Heasoo Hwang
Brian Haas
"Coalescent Theory" M. Nordborg in Handbook of Statistical Genetics, 2001 John Wiley & Sons
Nordborg & Tavare (Trends in Genetics)
Reich et al.
10/27 No Class
11/3/2003 Hyunmin Kang
Sean M O'Rourke
11/10/2003 Qian Peng
Chun Ye
11/17/2003 Noah Zaitlen
Shaojie Zhang
11/24/2003
12/1/2003

Research:
If you are interested in exploring research opportunities in Computational Biology, please get in touch with me.