Computational Genomics, November 5 - 11, 2008


Particpating Faculty

Books on Computational Biology and Molecular Evolution
Course WWW servers: courses3
Genomics01 Genomics02 Genomics03 Genomics04 Genomics05
Genomics06 Genomics07 Genomics08 Genomics09 Genomics10
Group Photo

5 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
5:00 Wine and Cheese Reception
 
7:30 Workshop I - Problem discussion
8:00 Algorithms for Biological Sequence Comparison Pearson
Suboptimal global alignments

6 Nov. Thursday

9:00 Iterated protein database searches with PSI-BLAST Altschul
11:00 Workshop II: BLAST/PSI-Blast workshop
 
1:30 Workshop II -- Review
2:00 Approaches to Multiple Sequence Alignment/Multiple alignment resources Smith
Multiple alignment resources
4:00 Workshop III: Multiple Sequence Alignment
 
7:30 Workshop III - Review
8:00 Hidden Markov Models and Protein Profiles Pearson

7 Nov. Friday

9:00 Identifying Consensus Sites Pearson
10:30 Workshop IV -- Hidden Markov Models
Consensus Sites
 
1:30 Workshop IV: Review
2:00 NCBI Resources for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Cooper
NCBI Part2
3:30 Workshop V: Exploring NCBI databases
 
7:30 Workshop V: Review -- Overall Problem Review
8:00 Mid-term Exam
Challenging Problems

8 Nov. Saturday

9:00 Mid-term exam discussion
10:30 The ENSEMBL Database of Genomes I Overduin
Ensembl I part B
 
2:00 Workshop VI: Using ENSEMBL/BioMart
Exercise Answers
4:00 Alignment algorithms - Large Scale Alignment I Pearson
 
7:30 Workshop VI: Review
8:00 NCBI Genome Resources Cooper

9 Nov. Sunday

9:00 Biological Ontologies Ashburner
11:00 Workshop VII: NCBI Genome Resources
 
1:30 Workshop VII: Review
2:00 Genome Comparison Biology Stubbs
3:30 Workshop VIII: Genome Annotation Workshop
 
6:00 Banquet

10 Nov. Monday

9:00 ENSEMBL II Overduin
Compara
10:30 Workshop VIII: Advanced ENSEMBL: The Gene set and Comparative Genomics
beta.ensembl.org
 
1:30 Workshop VIII: Discussion
2:00 Genome Comparison Biology II Stubbs/Nowick
Resources for Comparative Genomics
Decode data
3:30 CSHL Tour - Grace Auditorium
 
7:30 Course Overview Pearson
Final Projects

11 Nov. Tuesday

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

Last updated: Mon Nov 10 17:20:43 2008