BNFO 301 
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Spring 2013 

January February March April May

 
Tuesday
 
Thursday
 
  5: SPRING BREAK
  7: SPRING BREAK
 
  12: Intro to Molecular Biology
      Notes: Gene regulation and phage
      Research Project
      Tour: Sample Research Project (DNA)
      Questionnaire regarding notes and project
      Problem Set 6: Statistics (due Mar 18)
      Questionnaire regarding group preferences.
            Please submit by noon Wednesday
13:
Prefs
14: Intro to Molecular Biology
      Article: Madsen et al. (1999) + Tour
      Research Project
      Tour: Sample Research Project (protein), Part II (pdf)
      Announcement: Research groups
      Discussion: Gene annotation
      Problem Set 6: Statistics (due Mar 18)
      Questionnaire
 
18:
PS6
19: Intro to Molecular Biology
      Article: Madsen et al. (1999) + Tour
      Genome Analysis
      Article: Hatfull et al (2008) review + tour (Part I)
      Questionnaire
      Questionnaire regarding individual topic.
            (some advice)
            Please submit by noon Wednesday
20:
Topic
21: Genome Analysis
      Article: Hatfull et al (2008) review + tour (Part II)
      Problem Set 7: Finding sequence motifs (due Mar 25)
      Tour: Pattern matching
      Questionnaire
 
25:
PS7
26: Genome Analysis
      Article: Gomathi et al (2007) + tour
      Questionnaire
      Research Project
      Exercise: Results vs Conclusions
      Bibliography
            Please submit by noon Wednesday
27:
Bib
28: Genome Analysis
      Article: Gomathi et al (2007) + tour
      Problem Set 8: Mixed bag (due Apr 1)
      Questionnaire