CAP 5510 & CGS 5166: Spring 2013
Bioinformatics Course Homepage
Mon 2:00 - 4:50, ECS 243

Office: ECS 254; Phone: (305) 348-3748;
Office Hours: By Appointment Only
e-mail: giri@cs.fiu.edu

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mar 4 Homework #2 is ready;
Feb 6 Today's office hours schedule is as follows:
3:00 PM - Tanya; 3:20 PM - Liliana; 3:40 PM - Ketaki; 4:00 PM - Mansi; 4:20 PM - Natalie; 4:40 PM - open; Please try not to be late for your scheduled meetings.

COURSE SYLLABUS

Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, by Jonathan Pevsner, Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2009, 2nd Edition, Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-470-08585-1

Bioinformatics, by Baxevanis & Ouelette, 3rd Edition, ISBN: 0-471-47878-4.
Bioinformatics, by David Mount, CSHL Press, 2002, 2nd Edition, Paperback, ISBN: 0-879-69712-1
Understanding Bioinformatics, by Zvelebil & Baum, ISBN: 0-815-34024-9.
Introduction to Bioinformatics, by Arthur M. Lesk, 3rd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Apr 8: Lec 11[pdf]
Apr 1: Lec 10[pdf]
Mar 18: Lec 9[pdf]
Mar 4: Lec 8[pdf]
Feb 25: Lec 7[pdf]
Feb 18: Lec 6[pdf]
Feb 11: Lec 5[pdf]
Feb 4: Lec 4[pdf]
Jan 28: Lec 3[pdf] [Sequence Alignment; BLAST; Multiple Seq Alignment]
Jan 14: Lec 2[pdf] [Mol Biol Preliminaries; Public Databases; Sequence Alignment]; [Lecture Slides by Pevsner pdf]
Jan 7: Lec 1[pdf] [Introduction & Motivation]; Reading: [Chapters 1, 2 (from Pevsner); Additional Reading]; [ Statistical Preliminaries]; [ M IT Lectures on Computational Biology]

News: Genome News Network. Online magazine covering important developments in genomics research.
Popular: Virtual Cell Animation Collection. Find some great animations here, especially ones on Transcription and Regulated Transcription.
Popular: California Sea urchin genome sequenced, Nov 2006.
Popular: Time, Love, Memory, by Jonathan Weiner, 1999.
Useful Blurbs: What's a Genome (and also Chromosome, Gene, DNA, Sequencing, genome map, genome variations), by Sarah E. DeWeedt, 2003.
Guide to Sequenced Genomes

Last modified: Mon Jan 7 09:02:53 EST 2013