CS 6853 Special Topics in Bioinformatics
Fall 2008

Course description

Credit 3.
This course of Special Topics in Bioinformatics is focused on applying the computational techniques developed in computer science to solve problems in molecular biology, which involves DNA, RNA and protein sequences and structures.

Every student who is interested in bioinformatics/computational biology is encouraged to take the course.

• Course syllabus
• Class note 1
• Class note Sequence Assembly
• Class note Clustering
• Class note DNA and protein sequence Comparison
• Class note on MSA
• Class note on Motif

Textbook

• N. C. Jones, P. A. Pevzner, An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2004.

Other referencs

• Mount D.W. (2001) Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
• Pevzner P.A. (2002) Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach. The MIT Press.
• Cormen T.H., Leiserson C.E., Rivest R.L., and Stein C. (2001) Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition. The MIT Press.
• Lodish H., Berk A., Zipursky S.L., Matsudaira P., Baltimore D., and Darnell J. (2000) Molecular Cell Biology, Fourth Edition. W.H. Freeman.

Some useful links

• International Society for Computational Biology

• National Center for Biotechnology Information

• Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative

• An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms

• Pavel Pevzner, Ronald R. Taylor Professor of CS, Director, Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology at UCSD