BIOL698: Current trends in computational biology
Spring 2005

Instructor:
Usman Roshan, GITC 4301
Ph: 973-596-2872
Office hours: Thu 1-3
usman@cs.njit.edu

Course syllabus (ps) (pdf)

Course plan:
   
Topic
Date
Handouts
Phylogenetics---models, distance-based estimation
01/18/05
h1, h2
Phylogenetics---likelihood, parsimony, heuristic searches
01/25/05
Same handouts as last time plus h1 h2 h3
Phylogenetics---disk covering methods, supertree methods
02/01/05
Same handouts as last time plus h1, h2, SCM handout, dcm3 slides, supertree slides
Quiz #1. Alignment---pairwise, heuristic pairwise, multiple
02/08/05
h1, h2, h3
Phylogenetics
02/15/05
Previous handouts on phylogenetics plus phylogenetics lecture notes
Phylogenetics, pairwise sequence alignment heuristics and scoring matrices
02/22/05
Previous handouts on alignment plus pairwise alignment lecture notes
Make-up quiz #1, pairwise sequence alignment heuristics, and multiple sequence alignment
03/01/05
Previous handouts on multiple sequence alignment plus multiple alignment lecture notes
Multiple sequence alignment
03/08/05
No handouts
Multiple sequence alignment
03/15/05
No handouts
Spring break---No class
03/22/05
No handouts
Quiz #2, clustering gene expression data 03/29/05 Hierarchical and k-means clustering h1, and diametrical clustering h2
Clustering gene expression data 04/05/05
Graph-theoretic clustering: h1 and h2, and protein structure prediction chapter
Quiz #3, student presentations 04/12/05
No handouts
Student presentations 04/19/05
No handouts
Student presentations 04/26/05
No handouts
Final exam 05/10/05
No handouts