Spring 2010

BioE 580 Principles of Bioinformatics

I am teaching this courses this semester. See below for details.

Tuesday: 9:30-10:15 am 

Thursday: 9:30-10:15 am 

419 CMW
4 credit hours

Instructor: Jie Liang
Office: 164D CLN 
Phone: 312-355-1789 

Teaching Assistant: Michael Montesano

Syllabus

Helpful materials on:

• General
  • Some notes that might be useful for this course.
• Stochastic process and Markov chains.
  • Prof. Joseph T. Chang's notes on Markov Chains.
• Monte Carlo methods.
  • Prof. Jun Liu's Tutorial: Gibbs Sampler and MCMC Methods.
  • Prof. S.K. Sahu's tutorial in MCMC.
• Phylogenetic analysis.
  • Prof. Felsenstein's notes on phylogenetics and parsimony methods.
  • Prof. Peter Foster's notes on likelihood methods.
  • Prof. Dirk Husmeier's tutorial on phylogenetics.
• Lattice and off-lattice model for protein folding (Helpful for homework2).
  • Prof. Ken Dill's review on protein folding.

Previous Course Taught:

Fall 2008, BioE 480 Introduction to Bioinformatics.

Fall 2008, BioE 481 Bioinformatics lab.

Fall 2008, BioE 594 Topics of Bioinformatics: Geometric Modeling of Molecules.

Fall 2005, BioE 594 Topics of Bioinformatics: Geometric Modeling of Molecules.