Course Materials for Bioinformatics I
Fall 2008
Resources:
2006 NAR Database Issue
2006 NAR Web Server Issue
2007 NAR Database Issue
2007 NAR Web Server Issue
2008 NAR Database Issue
2008 NAR Web Server Issue
Lecture materials:
- Introduction to Bioinformatics I
- Basic Internet resources for bioinformatics
- Basics of bioinformatic algorithms
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Notes for Chaper 4 of the Jones/Pevzer book
- Website for class notes from the Jones/Pevzner book
Follow links Powerpoint Slides -> Chapter 5
- In Jones/Pevzner read about:
- NP-complete problems, pages 49-51
- graphs, and the Eulerian and Hamiltonian Cycle Problems, pages 248-258
- the Shortest Superstring Problem, pages 264-265
- Sequencing by Hybridization, and two solutions, pages 268-275
- Website -> Chapter 8
(Graphs and DNA Sequencing)
- Sequence alignment
- Weight matrices and introduction to probabilitic models
- Hidden Markov Models
- Study guide.
Symposium on the Frontiers of Evolutionary Biology, Friday Oct. 10 at PSU.
Papers:
Genomic data mining
Accuracy of next-generation sequencing
You might find it amusing to read the
story of how I got involved in bioinformatics, or
"10 Steps to Success in Bioinformatics"