Bioinformatics Training Course Lecture Schedule

 

Lecture 1

Sequence Alignment

 

  • Course introduction
  • Overview of bioinformatics
  • Introduction to algorithm
  • Recursion
  • Dynamic programming
  • Smith-Waterman algorithm

Lecture 2

Sequence Database Search

 

  • Biological databases
  • BLAST
  • Basic information theory
  • Sequence Logo
  • Basic theory of computation
  • Transformational grammar
  • Regular expression

Lecture 3

Motif

 

  • String algorithms
  • Finite state automata
  • Position specific weight matrix
  • Markov chain
  • Software quality assessment
  • Greedy algorithm
  • Introduction to graph

Lecture 4

Hidden Markov Model I, Gene Finding I

 

  • CpG island
  • Decoding
  • Evaluation
  • Prokaryote gene finding

Lecture 5

Hidden Markov Model II,  Gene Finding II

 

  • Baum-Welch algorithm
  • Pair HMM
  • Eukaryote gene finding

Lecture 6

Multiple Alignment

 

  • Expectation maximization
  • Introduction to Monte Carlo simulation
  • Gibbs sampling
  • ClustalW
  • T-Coffee

Lecture 7

Phylogenetic Tree

 

  • Introduction to molecular evolution
  • Clustering algorithms
  • Maximum parsimony method
  • Maximum likelihood method

Lecture 8

Comparative Genomics

 

  • Suffix tree
  • Genome scale alignment
  • Comparative methods to find regulatory regions
  • Predicting functions by comparative genomics
  • Comparative methods for gene finding

Lecture 9

Genome Sequencing

 

  • Whole genome shotgun sequencing
  • Emerging sequencing technologies
  • Fragment assembly

Lecture 10

Non-coding RNAs

 

  • Transformational grammar
  • RNA secondary structure
  • microRNA prediction
  • siRNA design

Lecture 11

Literature Database

 

  • PubMed
  • MeSH term
  • Information retrieval system
  • Document clustering
  • Gene ontology

Lecture 12

Protein Structure I

 

  • Principles of protein structure
  • Protein family
  • Structural alignment
  • Structural classification

Lecture 13

Protein Structure II

 

  • Secondary structure prediction
  • Introduction to molecular dynamics
  • Simulated annealing
  • Genetic algorithm
  • Homology modeling
  • Threading

Lecture 14

DNA Microarray I

 

  • Regulatory elements
  • Image analysis
  • Normalization
  • Experimental design
  • Gene selection

Lecture 15

DNA Microarray II

 

  • Linear discriminant method
  • Principal component analysis
  • Multidimensional scaling
  • Clustering
  • Self-organising maps
  • Support vector machine

Lecture 16

Proteomics

 

  • Peptide mass finger printing
  • de novo sequencing
  • Spectral analysis
  • Protein modification detection

Lecture 17

Metabolomics

 

  • Metabolite identification
  • Diagnostic marker identification
  • Integration of omics data

Lecture 18

Systems Biology

 

  • Reconstruction of biochemical networks
  • Mathematical representation of reconstructed networks
  • Metabolic pathway databases
  • Network modeling tools

Lecture 19

Genetic Epidemiology I

 

  • Genetic Markers
  • Physical Markers
  • Mouse genetics
  • SNP and Haplotype
  • Mendelian Inheritance

Lecture 20

Genetic Epidemiology II

 

  • Basic Epidemiological and Statistical Principles
  • Familial Aggregation
  • Segregation Analysis
  • Linkage Analysis

Lecture 21

Genetic Epidemiology III

 

  • Principles of Population Genetics
  • Testing Candidate Gene Associations
  • Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping
  • Gene Characterization

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