2 Course Sylabus
Sandra Peņa and Humberto Ortiz Zuazaga will be teaching an
introductory graduate course in bioinformatics Spring 2004 in
UPR-RRP. We will be using the textbook ``Bioinformatics: Sequence and
Genome Analysis'' by David Mount, Cold Spring Harbor Press (see
www.bioinformaticsonline.org).
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.
Grades will be determined by attendance (10%), homework, a midterm
exam and a final project each worth 30% of the final grade.
The planned outline for the course is as follows:
| Topic |
Lectures |
| Introduction |
1 |
| Sequences |
1 |
| Python |
1 |
| Biopython |
1 |
| Unix |
1 |
| Pairwise aligmnents |
2 |
| Multiple alignments |
2 |
| Phylogeny |
2 |
| Blast |
1 |
| Gene prediction |
1 |
| RNA structure |
1 |
| Protein structure |
2 |
| Microarray analysis |
1 |
| Clustering |
1 |
| Tissue classification |
1 |
| Gene networks |
2 |