Computational Genomics, November 4 - 10, 2009


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Books on Computational Biology and Molecular Evolution

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4 Nov. Wednesday

9:00 Introduction and Overview Pearson
9:30 Protein Evolution and Sequence Similarity Searching Pearson
 
1:30 Workshop I: Similarity searching and statistics
3:30 Statistics of Sequence Similarity Scores Altschul
 
7:30 Review
8:00 Similarity Searching II - Strategies Pearson
Suboptimal global alignments

5 Nov. Thursday

9:00 Iterated protein database searches with PSI-BLAST Altschul
11:00 Workshop II: BLAST/PSI-Blast workshop
 
1:30 Review
2:00 NCBI Resources for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Cooper
3:30 Workshop III: Exploring NCBI databases
 
7:30 Review
8:00 Approaches to Multiple Sequence Alignment Smith
Multiple Alignment Resource List

6 Nov. Friday

9:00 Hidden Markov Models and Protein Profiles Pearson
10:30 Workshop IV: MSA
Hidden Markov Models
 
1:30 Review
2:00 The ENSEMBL Database of Genomes I Overduin
3:30 Workshop V: Ensembl I
5:00 Wine and Cheese Reception
 
7:30 Review -- Overall Problem Review
8:00 Mid-term Exam

7 Nov. Saturday

9:00 Mid-term exam discussion
10:30 NCBI Genome Resources Cooper
 
1:30 Workshop VI: NCBI Genome Resources
3:00 Genome Comparison Biology I Stubbs
 
7:00 Review
7:30 Alignment algorithms - Large Scale Alignment I Pearson
8:30 Workshop VII: Genome Annotation Workshop A
Genome Annotation Workshop B
Apollo setup and annotation files

8 Nov. Sunday

9:00 Review
9:30 Genome Comparison Biology II Stubbs
11:00 ENSEMBL II Overduin
Compara
 
2:00 Workshop VIII: Ensembl II
3:30 Consensus Sites Pearson
 
6:00 Banquet

9 Nov. Monday

9:00 Inferring Function -- Orthology Thomas
10:30 Workshop IX: Function
 
1:30 Workshop X: Consensus Sites
3:30 CSHL Tour - Grace Auditorium
 
7:30 Course Overview Pearson
Final Projects

10 Nov. Tuesday

8:30 Project reports/Review/Discussion
11:30 Farewell

Last updated: Thu Dec 24 11:30:49 2009