BISC 303/CS 303 Syllabus

Instructors:

Brian Tjaden, Computer Science
website | btjaden@wellesley.edu

Brett Pellock, Biological Sciences
bpellock@wellesley.edu

Class:

6:30-9:00pm Wednesdays, SCI 278, Wellesley College

FirstClass Conference:

BISC/CS303-S08

TextBooks:

Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Jonathan Pevsner, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003

Fundamental Concepts of Bioinformatics, D.E. Krane and M.L. Raymer, Benjamin Cummings, 2003

Date		Lecture	HW	Reading
Jan	30	Introduction to Bioinformatics	Milestone1 (due 2/6)	Chapter 1 (Krane) Chapter 2 (Pevsner)
Feb	6	Introduction to Programming	Milestone2 (due 2/13)	Intro to Programming using Python
	13	Programming Applications	Milestone3 (due 2/20)	Python Course in Bioinformatics
	20	Models of Sequence Evolution	Milestone4 (due 2/27)	Chapter 3 (Krane)
	27	Pairwise Sequence Alignment	Milestone5 (due 3/5)	Chapter 2 (Krane) Chapter 3 (Pevsner)
Mar	5	BLAST (Searching Sequence Databases)	Milestone6 (due 3/12)	Chapter 4 (Pevsner)
	12	Multiple Sequence Alignment	Milestone7 (due 3/19)	Chapter 10 (Pevsner)
	19	Phylogenetic Methods	Milestone8 (due 4/2)	Chapters 4 and 5 (Krane) Chapter 11(Pevsner)
	26	SPRING BREAK
Apr	2	Microarray Analysis	Milestone9 (due 4/9)	Chapter 7 (Pevsner)
	9	Regulatory Motifs	Milestone10 (due 4/16)	A Database of Transcription Factor Binding Sites
	16	Current Trends in Bioinformatics	Final Project
	23	Final Presentations	Final Project
	30	No class - Ruhlman Conference
May	7	Final Presentations and Wrap-Up	Final Project

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Department of Computer Science
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