CS438/591 Lecture Notes

Week 1
Course introduction
Review of algorithm design and complexity (to be continued)
Week 2
(Continued on) Review of algorithm design and complexity (done)
Molecular Biology Primer (part 1, done)
Week 3
Molecular Biology Primer (part 2, done)
Molecular Biology Primer (part 3, done)
Molecular Biology Primer (uncustomized whole set of slides)
Video Demo of DNA Transcription
Video Demo of RNA Translation and Protein Synthesis
DNA Mapping (to be continued)
week 4
DNA Mapping (done)
Motif Finding (till slide #54)
week 5
Continued on "Motif Finding" (done)
Week 6
Genome Rearangement and Greedy Algorithms (done)
Week 7
Dynamic Programming Part 1: Edit Distance (done)
Week 8
Dynamic Programming Part2: Sequence Alignments (to be continued)
Wednesday: Answers and Questions (at regular class room and time) by TA
Friday: Midterm Exam (then spring break, enjoy it)
Week 9
Dynamic Programming Part2: Sequence Alignments (done)
Dynamic Programming Part3: Multiple Alignments (done)
Week 10
Dynamic Programming Part4: Statistic Gene Prediction (done)
Dynamic Programming Part5: Similarity-based Gene Prediction (till slide #19)
Week 11
Continued on Dynamic Programming Part5: Similarity-based Gene Prediction (done)
Divide and Counquer for Linear Space Alignment (done)
Week 12
Graph Algorithms for DNA Sequencing (till slide #30)
Week 13
Continued on Graph Algorithms for DNA Sequencing (till slide #85)
Student Presentations (Week 14 and 15)
Patrick Brown: Fast Fourier Transform applied to Bioinformatics
Mejdl Safran: Formal Models of Gene Clusters
Sourav Dutta: Parallel Computation to Bioinformatics Problems
Sheheeda Manakkadu: DNA Computers
Steven Haar: Hidden Markov Model and its Application in Bioinformatics
Revew guide for Exam 2
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