1 Course Announcment
Sandra Peña and Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga will be teaching an
introductory graduate course in bioinformatics Spring 2004 in
UPR-RRP. The course numeration and description is ``Mate 6685 Aplicaciones de la computadora en biología''.
We will be using the textbook ``Bioinformatics: Sequence and
Genome Analysis'' by David Mount, Cold Spring Harbor Press (see
www.bioinformaticsonline.org).
Topics covered will include an introduction to biological sequences,
an introduction to programming in python, an introduction to unix,
seqence alignments, sequence phylogeny, sequence database searches,
gene prediction, RNA secondary structure predictions, protein
structure, and whole genome analysis,including transcriptome and
microarray analysis, gene clusturing and application of statistics to
gene profiling data.
We will emphasize the fundamental theory behind the analysis, and also
present practical problems and their solutions. We will emphasize
open-source bioinformatics tools, and show how to construct such tools
using biopython, a set of libraries for bioinformatics in the python
programming language.
The course is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate
students in biology. A basic knowlege of molecular biology is
assumed. Students from other disciplines are invited to participate,
but will have to make up the background. Classes will meet Tuesdays
and Thursdays.
For more information, please see the course homepage at:
http://www.hpcf.upr.edu/~humberto/bioinformatics-course/.