Fall Semester 2016

Lecture Notes

August 30, 2016  Storrs Introduction to BME5800, Course Concept Simon 
       
    Basics   
September 6, 2016  Storrs Problems and Solutions, Complexity Simon 
    Simulated Annealing Simon
    Graphs, Hashing, Strings Simon
       
    Sequence, Primary Structure   
September 13, 2016  UConn Health  Cloning, DNA Amplification Gunzl
    Short Reads, Fragment Assembly Duff
       
September 20, 2016  Storrs Alignment Simon 
    BLASTFastA Simon 
       
September 27, 2016  No Class    
       
October 4, 2016  Storrs Joint Probability, Conditional Probability, Markov Assumption, Entropy Simon 
    Expectation-Maximization Simon 
    Hidden Markov Models for Gene-finding Simon 
       
October 11, 2016  Storrs Gene-finding with ANNs Rajasekeran
       
October 18, 2016  Storrs Expectation Maximization, Motif Elicitation Simon 
       
October 25, 2016  UConn Health  Linear Algebra, Molecular Evolution, Stationarity Simon 
       
November 1, 2016  UConn Health  Molecular Divergence Simon 
    Phylogeny Simon 
       
    Secondary and Tertiary Structure   
November 8, 2016  UConn Health  Clustering Simon 
    Principal Component Analysis Simon 
       
November 15, 2016  UConn Health  Fourier Transformation Simon 
    X-Ray Crystallography Hao 
    DALI Maciekewski
       
November 22, 2016  No Class Thanksgiving Break   
       
November 29, 2016  UConn Health  NMR Review Maciekewski
    Normal Mode Analysis Schuyler
       
December 6, 2016  UConn Health  Student Project Presentation All 
    Monte Carlo Model of Stochastic Gene Expression in Bacteria  Peter Larson, Victor Wang