Computational Genomics, November 2 - 8, 2005


Particpating Faculty

Books on Computational Biology and Molecular Evolution


Group Photo

2 Nov. Wednesday

9:00 Introduction and Overview Pearson
9:30 Protein Evolution and Sequence Similarity Searching PDF Pearson

1:30 Workshop I - Similarity searching and statistics
3:30 Workshop I - Problem discussion
4:00 Algorithms for Biological Sequence Comparison Pearson
5:00 Wine and Cheese Reception

7:30 Statistics of Sequence Similarity Scores Altschul

3 Nov. Thursday

9:00 Approaches to Multiple Sequence Alignment Smith
Multiple alignment resources
11:00 Workshop II: Multiple Sequence Alignment

1:30 Problem Review
2:00 Iterated protein database searches with PSI-BLAST Altschul
3:30 Workshop III: BLAST/PSI-Blast workshop

7:30 Problem Discussion
8:00 Biological Sequence Comparison - Algorithms and Scoring Matrices [PDF] Pearson
  Practice alignment

4 Nov. Friday
9:00 Hidden Markov Models and Protein Profiles PDF Pearson
10:30 Workshop IV: Multiple Sequence Alignment, HMMs
11:00 Finding Consensus Sites PDF Pearson
 
 
 
1:30 NCBI Resources for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Cooper
3:00 Workshop V: Exploring NCBI databases

7:30 Problem Review
8:00 Genome Annotation/Sequence Ontologies/Gene Ontologies pdf Yandell
10:00 Mid-term Exam

5 Nov. Saturday
9:00 Mid-term exam discussion
10:00 Comparative Genomics I - Tools for Comparative Genomics Hardison

1:30 NCBI Genome Resources pdf Cooper
3:00 Workshop V: NCBI Genome Workshop

7:30 Problem Review
8:00 Large Scale Computation on Genomes -- I pdf Yandell

6 Nov. Sunday

9:00 Workshop VI - Comparative Genomics I
10:30 Genome Computation and Gene Regulation Hardison

1:00 Workshop - Genome Computation II
2:30 Alignment algorithms - Large Scale Alignment PDF Pearson
4:00 Workshop IX - Large Scale Alignment

6:00 Banquet

7 Nov. Monday

9:00 Comparative Genome Databases/Ensmart Pearson
10:30 The Reactome Pathway Database D'Eustachio

1:30 Reactome Workshop
3:00 CSHL Tour - Grace Auditorium
4:00 Workshops Consensus Sites Ensembl/Ensmart exercises

8:00 Final Exam/Final Problem set

8 Nov. Tuesday

8:30 Project reports/Final exam Review/Discussion
11:30 Farewell