Biol 591 
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Fall 2003 

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Monday
  
Wednesday
  
Friday
    1: NO CLASS
     (but consultations highly encouraged)		   3:  Scenario 3: Sequence alignment
      Introduction: The story
      Questionnaire (HTML)
      Exam 1 due
6: Scenario 3: Sequence alignment
      Notes-DNA Alignment
      Questionnaire (HTML)		   8: Scenario 3: Sequence alignment
     Notes-2D-arrays and BlastN
     Questionnaire (HTML) 		   10: Scenario 3: Sequence alignment
      Notes-Scoring/Protein Alignment
      Questionnaire (HTML)
13: Scenario 3: Sequence alignment
      Notes-Scoring/Protein Alignment
      Notes-What's wrong with BlastN?
      Questionnaire (HTML)		   15: Scenario 4: Metabolic modeling
      Introduction: The story
      Scenario 3: Sequence alignment
      Problem Set 3: Focus on 5, 8, 7, 2		   17: Scenario 4: Metabolic modeling
      Notes-Metabolic Modeling
      Read Eisenthal & Cornish-Bowden (1998)
      Questionnaire (HTML)
20: Scenario 4: Metabolic modeling
      Notes-Modeling program
      Questionnaire (HTML)		   22: Scenario 5: Position-specific Scoring Matrices
      Introduction: The story
      Scenario 4: Metabolic modeling
      Problem Set 4: Focus on 3, 6, 10		   24: Scenario 5: PSSMs
      Notes-PSSMs
      Questionnaire (HTML)
27: Scenario 5: PSSMs
      Notes-PSSM-program
      Questionnaire (HTML)
      Self-critique of Exam 1 due
      Problem sets 3 and 4 due		   29: Scenario 5: PSSMs
      Problem Set 5: Focus on 4, 6, 8, 10		    31: General Discussion of 
       Problems/Study Questions
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       Exam 2 available at end of class