Introduction to Bioinformatics, Fall 2009-2010

Overview:

This course is an introduction to the field of bioinformatics for students from Life Sciences and Medicine.
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with modern methods in bioinformatics used for current biology research.

Teaching instructors: Tal Pupko, Eran Halperin, and Iftach Nachman.


Announcements:

18.10.09: It is recommended to participate in the exercise course Tools in Bioinformatics, once in two weeks. 28.11.09: The Powerpoint slides regarding gene expression were updated on 28.11.09
11.1.10: For next lesson, please try solving the following exam (the final exam will be in the same format)
ExampleExam2010.pdf
15.1.10: The Powerpoint slides regarding lesson 3 (Sequence alignment - part2) were updated on 15.1.10, so that only taught material is presented.
19.1.10: The Powerpoint slides for lesson 11 (Networks and Motifs) were updated (small corrections)
19.1.10: A link to the live cell imaging movies from Lesson 12 was added.
24.1.10: A small error was fixed in Phylogeny1.ppt slide 30 (Tnx goes to Arik F for pointing out the error)
27.1.10: Here is a link to the Legionella movie that was shown in class when machine learning was discussed: http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/animation/imp_animation/index.html
27.1.10: A small error was fixed in geneExpression.ppt slide 39 (Tnx goes again to Arik F for pointing out the error)
28.1.10: A small error was fixed in Phylogeny2.ppt slide 10. Sedimentation rate was replaced with the correct term, sedimentation coefficient (Tnx goes to Aharon N for pointing out the error)
28.1.10: Everyone - please keep sending us errors and comments!
4.2.10: Moed A exam + solutions + grade policy is now uploaed.
MoedA2010ExamWithSolution.pdf



Syllabus

Class Date Topic Presentation
Lesson 1 18.10.2009  Computational biology -
 revolutionizing science at the turn of the century		 Revolution.ppt
Lesson 2 25.10.2009  Sequence alignment - part1 Alignment1.ppt
Lesson 3 1.11.2009  Sequence alignment - part2 Alignment2.ppt
Lesson 4 8.11.2009  Phylogeny - part1 Phylogeny1.ppt

Lesson 5 15.11.2009  Phylogeny - part2 Phylogeny2.ppt
Lessons 6,7 22.11.2009, 29.11.2009  Gene expression geneExpression.ppt
Lesson 8 6.12.2009  Computational Structural Biology proteinStructure.ppt
Lesson 9 20.12.2009  SNIP analysis GeneticVariation1.ppt
Lesson 10 27.12.2009  SNIP analysis GeneticVariation2.ppt
Lesson 11 3.1.2010  Networks and motifs NetworksAndMotifs.ppt
Lesson 12 10.1.2010  Single Cell Informatics SingleCellInformatics.ppt (movies)
Lesson 13 17.1.2010  Solving an example exam ExampleExam2010.pdf