Computational Biology Lecture Notes

Sequence Analysis Unit

LectureSubjectAssigned Reading for That Class
LecturesPart01.pptIntroduction/Representing and Retrieving SequencesMount, Ch. 1
Mount, Ch. 2
LecturesPart02.pptSearching with Entrez/Sequence Comparison with Dot MatricesMount, Ch. 3 through page 79
LecturesPart03.pptSequence Comparison with Dynamic Programming Mount, pages 79 to 97
Needleman & Wunsch paper (read up to section 5)
(recommended) Durbin, pp. 17-32
LecturesPart04.pptSimilarity Matrices/Statistics of Pattern AppearanceMount, rest of Ch. 3
Mount, Ch. 4
PossibleSites.c
LecturesPart05.pptMultiple Sequence AlignmentMount, Ch. 5 through p. 186
LecturesPart06.pptRepresenting and Finding Sequence FeaturesMount, pp. 210-214
Durbin, pp. 100-102
LecturesPart07.pptHidden Markov ModelsMount, pp. 204-210
Durbin, pp. 61-68, 72-75
LecturesPart08.pptSequence Database SearchingMount, Ch. 6 through p. 259
Altschul et al. paper
LecturesPart09.pptSearching for Sequence FamiliesMount, pp. 261-273
Grundy and Bailey paper
LecturesPart10.pptProtein Coding RegionsMount, Ch. 9 through p. 372
LecturesPart11.pptGenefindingMount, rest of Ch. 9
Rogic et al. paper
LecturesPart12.pptPredicting from Protein SequenceMount, Ch. 10
LecturesPart13.pptRetrieving and Displaying Macromolecular Structures
LecturesPart14.pptExpression array Cluster AnalysisMount, Ch. 13

Biological Modeling Unit

LectureSubjectAssigned Reading for That ClassWorksheets
LecturesPart15.pptModels of Population Dynamics and Population Dynamics using Recursion Relations
LecturesPart16.pptBiochemical Kinetics I
LecturesPart17.pptBiochemical Kinetics II(optional) Yeargers
Sections 7.10 through 7.12
Part17a.mw (Analytical solution of single ordinary differential equation)

Part17b.mw (Numerical integration of set of ordinary differential equations)

LecturesPart18.pptCompartmental AnalysisYeargers
Sections 7.10 through 7.12 (handout)
(pp. 220-233)
Part18a.mw (Lead metabolism, see Yeargers, section 7.10)

Part18b.mw (Pharmacokinetics, see Yeargers, section 7.11)

LecturesPart19.pptCell Cycle ModelingFall Ch. 10 through section 10.5 (handout)CompCellBiolFigure10-3.mw (cyclin/CDK vs. APC phase plane)
CompCellBiolFigure10-4.mw (cyclin/CDK vs. "p" bifurcation)
CompCellBiolFigure10-6.mw (kinetics)
LecturesPart20.pptNeuronal ModelingYeargers Ch. 8 (handout)Part20.mw (Hodgkin-Huxley)

Biological Imaging Unit

LectureSubjectImages
LecturesPart21.pptIntroduction to Bioimage Informatics
LecturesPart22.pptBiological Imaging I

LecturesPart22Movie.avi (3D focus series: 11 MB)
LAMP2Example.tif
Abdomen.tif
3D.zip (5 slices from 3D stack)

LecturesPart23.pptAutomated Interpretation of Subcellular Patterns in Microscope Images exampleclassif.m
finddecisionboundary.m
EndoAndLysoImages.tgz
showthresh.m
realdata.m
simplefeat.m
realWave.m
showWaveDecomp.m
rwt.tgz (Rice Wavelet Toolbox for Mac OS X); version for other OS available from http://dsp.rice.edu/software/rwt.shtml
LecturesPart24.pptAutomated Interpretation of Subcellular Patterns in Microscope Images IIfftillustrator2.m (MATLAB script illustrating FFTs)
LecturesPart25.pptImage-based Cell Models