Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm 
OB Room 304B 
3 credits 

Instructor: Iosif Vaisman
Office: OB, Room 312 
Office Hours: By appointment 
Phone: 703-993-8431 

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 (60%), exam (30%), and class participation (10%). 

Textbook:

Marketa J Zvelebil, Jeremy O Baum  
 Understanding bioinformatics
New York: Garland Science, 2008.

Syllabus

Lecture 1, 9/3/2009, A1, App.A
Lecture 2, 9/10/2009, A10, Ch.3
Lecture 3, 9/17/2009, Ch.3
Lecture 4, 9/24/2009, A11
Lecture 5, 10/1/2009, A9, A13, A14, Ch.4.1-4.7, Ch.5
Lecture 6, 10/8/2009, Ch.6
Lecture 7, 10/15/2009, Ch.4.8-4.10
Lecture 8, 10/22/2009, Ch.9, Ch.10
Lecture 9, 11/5/2009, Ch.2
Lecture 10, 11/12/2009, Ch.12
Lecture 11, 10/29/2009, Ch.2

Reading Materials

Homework assignment 1
Homework assignment 2

Assignment scores

Exercises