COMP 571 BIOINFORMATICS: SEQUENCE ANALYSIS
Spring 2017
(Fall 2010 offering,Spring 2016 offering)


[Staff] [Discussion Forum] [Information] [Materials]

Staff

. Name Email address Office hours
Instructor Luay K. Nakhleh nakhleh@cs.rice.edu by appointment, DH 3119
Teaching Assistant Leo Elworth ryan.a.leo.elworth@rice.edu by appointment, DH 3121

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Discussion Forum

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Course Information


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Course Material

Course material (homework assignments, schedule of topics, slides, etc.) will be posted in this section.

Slides Set # Topic Slides Materials
1 Administrivia and background material Slides (full), Slides (handout) syllabus
2 Sequence alignment: General overview Slides (full), Slides (handout)
3 Sequence alignment: Scoring schemes Slides (full), Slides (handout)
4 Sequence alignment: Dynamic programming algorithms for pairwise alignment Slides (full), Slides (handout)
5 Significance of estimated sequence alignments Slides (full), Slides (handout)
6 Markov chains and hidden Markov models Slides (full), Slides (handout) homework 1 (due Feb 7)
7 Pairwise HMMs and sequence alignment Slides (full), Slides (handout) homework 2 (due Feb 21)
8 Profiles and multiple sequence alignments Slides (full), Slides (handout)
9 Phylogenetics: Recovering Evolutionary History Slides (full), Slides (handout)
10 Phylogenetics: Building Phylogenetic Trees Slides (full), Slides (handout)
11 Phylogenetics: Parsimony Slides (full), Slides (handout) homework 3 (due Apr 6)
12 Phylogenetics: Distance-based Methods Slides (full), Slides (handout) homework 4 (due Apr 18)
13 Phylogenetics: Likelihood Slides (full), Slides (handout)
14 Phylogenetics: Bayesian Inference Slides (full), Slides (handout)

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