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Bioinformatics
Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine M.E:800.707
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This seven-lecture course begins Monday November
19, 2007 (West Lecture Hall). It is a core course in the BCMB. All graduate students and postdocs enrolled in the School
of Medicine are also welcome to attend.
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Description |
The use of computers
has revolutionized biological research. This BCMB core course provides
an introduction to bioinformatics, the combined field of biology and
informatics (information science and technology). The course focuses
on the analysis of proteins, genes, and genomes.
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Prerequisites |
None. Students
may sign up with the Registrar's Office (School of Medicine) to take
the course for credit. Auditors (including postdoctoral fellows) are
welcome but are requested to register.
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Format |
West Lecture Hall,
Wood Basic Science Building, given 9:00-10:30 a.m. on the dates indicated
below. There are seven lectures plus one in-class exam.
You should bring a laptop to class (this is optional but strongly
encouraged). Wireless is available.
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Instructor |
J. Pevsner (443-923-2686;
pevsner@jhmi.edu). My office is 400-D Kennedy Krieger.
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Textbook |
None
is required. I have written a textbook that is based on the lectures
given in this course: J. Pevsner, Bioinformatics and Functional
Genomics (John Wiley & Sons, 2003). Several copies will be
on reserve at Welch Library (reference desk), where you can sign them
out for several hours at a time. If you choose, you can order the
book through the Matthews Johns Hopkins Medical Book Center (i.e.
the bookstore)
or at Amazon
or Barnes
& Noble. Website
for textbook: http://www.bioinfbook.org.
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Readings |
One
or two published papers will be assigned for each class. PDFs are
posted below.
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Moodle site!!! |
Visit the moodle
site to take seven quizzes (one per lecture) and get class information!
For each lecture, there will be a take-home,
open-book, unlimited time quiz. The quizzes are designed to test your
understanding of the material, and/or for you to go to a computer
and apply what you have learned in each lecture (for example, after
the BLAST lecture you will do a BLAST search; after the phylogeny
lecture you will make a phylogenetic tree). Each quiz will be available
via moodle the day of its lecture, and you will typically have one
week to complete it.
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Powerpoints |
Powerpoints
are posted on the moodle site |
Grading |
40% of grade is based on the final
exam. 60% of grade is based on your best six scores from seven quizzes
(one quiz per lecture, taken via the moodle site).
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Course sponsors |
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Related courses of interest |
—Introduction to Bioinformatics
(260.602.01)(September/October each year ).
—Genomics (260.605.01); this newly-offered
course immediately follows Introduction to Bioinformatics and covers
the tree of life. Offered November/December each year.
—Analysis of Biological Sequences (140.638.01)
2nd term, 3 units.
—Biocomputing I: Perl for bioinformatics (140.636.01)
2nd term.
—Protein bioinformatics (260.841.01)
4th term.
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