Bioinformatics For Biologists

Instructor

• Dr. Dan Graur

Teaching Assistants

• Nicholas Price

Official Syllabus

• Undergraduate Students
• Graduate Students

Office hours

• By email appointment

Bioinformatics Links

Final Project

• Final projects for undergraduates
• Assigned final projects for graduates

Assignments

• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4
• Assignment 5
• No Assignment
• Assignment6&7
• Assignment 8
• Assignment 9

Answers

• Assignment 1 Answers
• Assignment 2 Answers
• Assignment 3 Answers
• Assignment 4 Answers
• Assignment 5 Answers
• Assignment 6&7 Answers
• Assignment 9 Answers

Presentations

Class 1

• Administration
• Introduction to Bioinformatics
• Final Project

Class 2

• Databases
• Searching the NCBI Databases

Class 3

• Pairwise Alignment
• Pairwise Alignment Practice

Class 4

• Blast & Fasta
• Blast Practice

Class 5

• Distances
• MSA Theory
• MSA Programs

Class 6

• Trees - Part I
• MEGA - Part I
• ldh_a-c.fas

Class 7

• Trees - Part II
• MEGA - Part II
• ldh_a-c.meg
• flu.fas

Class 8

• Trees - Part III
• Practice
• Crab_rRNA.meg
• cyt2.fas

Class 9

• Structure Prediction1
• Structure Prediction2
• Practice

Class 10

• Oral presentations

Class 11

• Motifs
• Motifs practice
• 50bs upstream of 350 Ecoli genes

Class 12

• Dr. Luay K. Nakhleh will give a talk on Phylogenetic Networks
• Presentation

Class 13

• Evaluations bioinformatics 2011
• Q&A session pertaining to final project