LECTURE  NOTES
Fall Semester 2003
Aug 26,2003    Introduction Simon
  
Sept 2,2003    Conditional Probability and Bayes Theorem Simon
  
Sept 9,2003    Problems to Consider Simon
     Strings: Matching, Alignment
Dynamic Programming with Global and Local Alignments
Simon
  
Sept 16,2003    Basic Linear Alignment and Search Tool (BLAST) Simon
  
Sept 23,2003    Sequence Alignment with FFT Rajasekaran
     Review BLAST Simon
     FastA Simon
     Evolutionary Time Simon
     Phylogeny- Parsimony algorithms Simon
  
Sept 30,2003    Cloning,Vectors,Hybridization and Probes Mosavi
     Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks Lundgren
     Review Evolutionary Distance and Parsimony Algorithms in Phylogeny Simon
     Distance Algorithms in Phylogeny Simon
  
Oct 7, 2003    Physical Mapping Simon
  
  
Oct 14, 2003    GeneFinding, Hidden Markov Models
  
Oct 29, 2003    Bioenergetics and Structure Prediction / Drug Design Peng
     Data considerations in Pattern Discovery and Cluster Analysis Simon
  
Nov 4, 2003    Microarrays: Gene Chips Graveley
     Principal Component Analysis Burleson
  
Nov 11, 2003    Protein Folding Rajasekeran
     Review of PCA - Linear Algebra Simon
     Clustering: Nearest Neighbor,k-Means, Self Organizing Maps Simon
 
  
Nov 18, 2003    3-D Database Searching / Structure Alignment King
     Course Review Simon
  
Dec 2, 2003   

FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

 
     Implementation of Simulated Annealing on the Traveling Salesman Problem using FORTRAN: An Application and Explanation. Laura Cimino
     An Implementation of Artificial Neural Network Approach Towards Gene Pathway Analysis Rishi Gupta, Vinay Gupta
     A Randomized Approach to Multiple Sequence Alignment -A novel idea to reduce the time of calculation for the distance matrix using randomization. Vishal Tharpar
  
Dec 9, 2003   

FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS - concluded

 
     Comparison of clustering algorithms and their use in understanding of the gene expression data Praveer Mathur
     Metallothionein and Chemokine Homology: Using Dynamic Programming to Compare Protein Sequence and Function Darryn Unfricht, Andy Sweatt
     Sequence matching using neural networks Francisco Rodriguez, Mauricio Barrero
     Implementation of Suffix Tree in Java and Some Applications Based On It Jun Song