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George Mason University 
School of Systems Biology 
Spring 2025
BINF630/BINF530/BIOL580/BINF401. Bioinformatics Methods 

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm 
Hybrid
3 credits 

Instructors: Iosif Vaisman and Deborah Ngan

Course description: The course covers theoretical approaches, techniques and computational tools for DNA and protein sequence and structure analysis. The topics also include biological databases and internet-based bioinformatics resourses. 

Grading: grades will be based on homework assignments (33% + 33%) and final exam (34%).  


Syllabus

Lecture 1, A1, A18
Lecture 2, A10
Lecture 3, A16, A19
Lecture 4, A11
Lecture 5, A11
Lecture 6, A7, A13, A14, Ch.4.1-4.7, Ch.5
Lecture 7, Ch.6, Ch.4.8-4.10
Lecture 8, A17, Ch.9, Ch.10
Lecture 9, Ch.2,11,12
Lecture 10, Ch.2,11
Lecture 11, Ch.2
Lecture 12, Ch.13
Lecture 13,
Lecture 14,


Reading Materials

Exercises






Sample HTML code
Jmol tutorial (by Andy Hoang)

Review topics