The 2012 Computational Genomics Course has been
rescheduled to November 28 - December 4, 2012


Participating Faculty

Books on Computational Biology and Molecular Evolution

Group Photo

28 Nov. Wednesday

9:00 Introduction and Overview Pearson/Stubbs
9:30 Protein Evolution and Sequence Similarity Searching Pearson
 
1:30 Workshop I: Similarity searching and statistics
4:00 Poster Session/Wine and Cheese
 
7:30 Review
8:00 Genome Annotation (HMM Basics) Mackey
Annotation review (Yandell)

29 Nov. Thursday

9:00 Alignment algorithms and scoring matrices Pearson
11:00 The Ensembl Database of Genomes I Pearson/Mills
 
1:30 Workshop II -- Ensembl
3:00 Sequencing Technologies/Tools Mackey
 
7:30 The Galaxy Computing Environment Mills/Mackey
8:30 Workshop: Intro to Galaxy/ Genome Sequencing

30 Nov. Friday

9:00 Databases for Computational Biology Ouellette
10:30 The UCSC Genome Browser Ouelette
Open Helix UCSC Browser Intro
UCSC Exercises
Review/Panel Discussion: Ensembl/UCSC -- which browser when?
 
1:00 PSSMs, HMMs, and Pfam Pearson
2:30 SNP Discovery and variation Mackey
4:00 Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phenotype Prediction: PolyPhen/SIFT Pearson
 
5:30 Pizza Dinner
 
7:00 Student Project discussion
7:30 Whole Genome de novo Assembly Mackey
Mid-term Exam

1 Dec. Saturday

9:00 Mid-term review
10:00 RNA Seq Mackey
 
1:30 Galaxy for High Throughput Analysis Taylor
3:00 Workshop: Galaxy Pipelines
Galaxy public exercises
BED to Genes
Sites to Genes
4:30 Project Strategy Summary/Genome Browser Overview
 
6:00 Banquet

2 Dec. Sunday

9:00 Galaxy Project Review
10:00 Introduction to Genome Biology Stubbs
11:00 Course Photo
11:15 Identfying Functional Motifs Sinha
 
1:30 Workshop: Functional Elements
Using the ECR Browser
zPicture/MULAN chromosome alignment
MEME motif finding
Cisfinder
DAVID Exercise
DAVID Gene List
DAVID paper
3:00 Tying functional elements to Biology Sinha
4:30 ENSEMBL/BioMart Ouellette/Pearson
BioMart/API Demos
Ensembl API
 
7:00 Review
8:30 Integrating genomics datasets for biological inference Stubbs, Sinha, Zhong
Comparative Epigenomics Demo
Epigenome Browser from UCSC
WashU Epigenome Browser

3 Dec. Monday

9:00 Functional Elements: II - Epigenomics Zhong
10:30 Workshop: Epigenomic analysis and networks
 
1:30 Review
2:00 Gene Lists, Interaction and Pathway Databases Ouellette
3:30 CSHL Tour - Grace Auditorium
4:30 Unix workshop
Unix cheat sheet
 
7:00 Student Projects

4 Dec. Tuesday

8:30 Student Projects -- Final Presentation
11:30 Course Overview/Discussion
12:00 Farewell


Last updated: Fri Jan 25 12:00:49 2013