Administration
When: Tuesday, Thursday, 10:30am to 11:45m ; Spring 2007
Where: 620 CEPSR
By who: Itsik Pe'er
What for: 3 credit points
For who: Graduate/advanced undergraduate students of relevant fields.
Although the course is listed in Computer Science,
cross enrollment by students with biomedical background is encouraged.
Abstract
This course is intended to introduce students of both computational
and bio-medical skill sets to current quantitative understanding
of mammalian genomics and prepare them to computational research in the field.
The course is interdisciplinary in nature, aiming at a broad scope of
Topics include: Sequencing of the human genome, vertebrate genomes, highlighting parts of the genome,
sequence conservation, sequence variation, structural mutations, primate evolution.
The computational toolbox discussed includes parameter inference,
likelihood analysis, hidden Markov and other graphical models,
approximate string matching and other algorithms.
The seminar is advanced and intimate. It is designed to foster interaction between students in genomics and to allow live, informal discussions.
Requirements
- Reading list for each class.
- Presentation and leading the discussion of ressearch papers
- Participation in class discussion.