Computational Biology Lecture Notes

Computational Molecular Biology Unit

LectureSubjectAssigned Reading for That Class
LecturesPart01.pptIntroductionJones/Pevzner, Ch. 1
Jones/Pevzner, Ch. 2 & 3 as needed
LecturesPart02.pptSearching with Entrez/Sequence MotifsJones/Pevzner, Ch. 4 through section 4.6 (page 100)
LecturesPart03.ppt
Ch06_EditDist_mod.ppt
Sequence Alignment Jones/Pevzner, Ch. 6 through section 6.4 (page 166)
Needleman & Wunsch paper (read up to section 5)
(recommended) Durbin, pp. 17-32
Ch06_Alignment.ppt
LecturesPart04.ppt
Similarity Matrices/Statistics of Pattern Appearance
PossibleSites.c
Jones/Pevzner, section 6.5 through 6.9
Ch06_MultAlign.pptMultiple Sequence AlignmentJones/Pevzner, section 6.10
LecturesPart05.pptHidden Markov ModelsJones/Pevzner, Ch. 11
(optional) Durbin, pp. 61-68, 72-75
LecturesPart06.pptSequence Database SearchingJones/Pevzner, Ch. 9
Altschul et al. paper
LecturesPart07.pptSearching for Sequence FamiliesGrundy and Bailey paper
LecturesPart08.pptProtein Coding Regions
LecturesPart09.pptGenefindingJones/Pevzner, section 6.11 through 6.15
Rogic et al. paper
Ch06_GenePred_sim_selected.pptAdditional slides for Part 09
LecturesPart10.pptPredicting from Protein Sequence
LecturesPart11.pptRetrieving and Displaying Macromolecular Structures
LecturesPart12.pptExpression array Cluster AnalysisJones/Pevzner, Ch. 10 through section 10.3
PhylogeneticReconstruction.pptPhylogenetic Tree ReconstructionJones/Pevzner, remainder of Ch. 10

Computational Cell Biology Unit

LectureSubjectAssigned Reading for That ClassWorksheets/Images
LecturesPart13.pptModels of Population Dynamics and Population Dynamics using Recursion Relations
LecturesPart14.pptBiochemical Kinetics I
LecturesPart15.pptBiochemical Kinetics II Part15a.mw (Analytical solution of single ordinary differential equation)

Part15b.mw (Numerical integration of set of ordinary differential equations)

LecturesPart16.pptCompartmental AnalysisYeargers
Sections 7.10 through 7.12 (handout)
(pp. 220-233)
Part16a.mw (Lead metabolism, see Yeargers, section 7.10)

Part16b.mw (Pharmacokinetics, see Yeargers, section 7.11)

LecturesPart17.pptNeuronal Modeling and Virtual CellYeargers Ch. 8 (handout)Part17.mw (Hodgkin-Huxley)
LecturesPart18.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)
LecturesPart19.pptIntroduction to Bioimage InformaticsGlory & Murphy review article
LecturesPart20.pptBiological Imaging I

LecturesPart20Movie.avi (3D focus series: 11 MB)
LAMP2Example.tif
Abdomen.tif
3D.zip (5 slices from 3D stack)

LecturesPart21.pptAutomated Interpretation of Subcellular Patterns in Microscope Images exampleclassif.m
finddecisionboundary.m
EndoAndLysoImages.tgz
showthresh.m
realdata.m
simplefeat.m
realWave2.m
showWaveDecomp2.m
dwtreshape.m
LecturesPart22.pptAutomated Interpretation of Subcellular Patterns in Microscope Images IIfftillustrator2.m (MATLAB script illustrating FFTs)
LecturesPart23.pptImage-based Cell Models