INF380: Lecture plan

This is a tentative lecture plan that will be continuously updated. Changes will occur.

Chapters refer to Eidhammer, Jonassen and Taylor if not otherwise stated.

Lecture slides and papers will be accessible in the Student portal (for copyright reasons).

Week Date Topic Reference
3 Mon 16/1 Orientation meeting. INF280 review:
Pairwise alignment by dynamic programming
Ch. 1 and 2.3
Thu 19/1 Multiple alignment Ch. 4
4 Mon 23/1 Multiple alignment and phylogenetic trees Ch. 4
Thu 26/1 Multiple alignment and phylogenetic trees Ch. 4
5 Mon 30/1 Scoring matrices Ch. 5
Thu 2/2 Profiles Ch. 6
6 Mon 6/2 Markov chains Ewens & Grant Ch. 4.4-4.9
Thu 9/2 Hidden Markov Models Ewens & Grant Ch. 11
7 Mon 13/2 Hidden Markov Models Ewens & Grant Ch. 11
Thu 16/2 HMM profiles, patterns Ch. 6, 7
8 Mon 20/2 Patterns Ch. 7
Thu 23/2 Patterns Ch. 7
9 Mon 27/2 Work on compulsory assignment
No lectures!
 
Thu 2/3
9 Mon 6/3 Introduction to Gene Prediction  
Thu 9/3 Gene prediction: Hidden Markov Models Krogh et al. (1994)
Burge & Karlin (1997) (GENSCAN)
10 Mon 13/3 Gene prediction: Artificial Neural Networks Uberbacher & Mural (1991) (GRAIL)
Pedersen & Nielsen (1997)
Hatzigeorgiou (2002)
Thu 16/3 Evaluation of gene prediction methods Burset & Guigo (1996)
Claverie (1997)
11 Mon 20/3 Protein structures
Review of assignment
Ch. 8
Thu 23/3 Protein structures
Review of assignment (cont.)
Ch. 8
12 Mon 27/3 Superposition and Dynamic Programming Ch. 9
Thu 30/3 Classification of protein structures Ch. 14
14 Mon 3/4 Structure prediction Ch. 15
Thu 6/4 Structure prediction Ch. 15
15-16 Easter holidays
16 Thu 20/4 Annotation and Gene Ontology Gene Ontology Consortium (2000, 2004)
17 Mon 24/4 Cancelled  
Thu 27/4 Introduction to proteomics
By Ingvar Eidhammer
 
18 Mon 1/5 Public holiday
Thu 4/5 Summing up  
19 Mon 8/5 More summing up (please suggest topics!)  
Thu 11/5
10:00-11:30
Introduction to microarray data analysis
By Inge Jonassen
Note the time!

Oral exam: Tue, May 23

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Eivind Coward
Last updated: 4 May, 2006.