Instructor: Jean Gao
Email: gao@uta.edu
Office: 538 Engineering Research Building, phone: 817-272-3628
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00 - 1:00pm or by appointment
Course Information: Tue & Thu, 12:30 - 1:50pm.
Classroom: ERB 129
TA: Mingon Kang
Email: mingon.kang@mavs.uta.edu
Office: 544 Engineering Research Building,
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Course Description: (class schedule)
Biological sciences are undergoing a revolution in how they are practiced. In the last decade, a vast amount of data (DNA sequences,
protein sequences, etc.) has become available, and computational methods are playing a fundamental role in transforming this data into scientific understanding.
Bioinformatics involves developing and applying computational methods for managing and analyzing information about the sequence, structure and function of biological molecules and systems. Topics will include understanding the evolutionary organization of genes (genomics), the structure and function of gene products (proteomics), and the dynamics for gene expression in biological processes (transcriptomics).
Objectives:
To provide students an understanding of the fundamental computational problems in molecular biology and genomics, and a core set of widely used algorithms in computational biology. The proposed course is intended to help students have a working knowledge of a variety of publicly available data and computational tools important in bioinformatics, and a grasp of the underlying principles
of contemporary bioinformatics.
Class Presentation
15%
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Student will give a class presentation from a given selected topics and
write
a critique for the presented topic.
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Grading will be based on clarity of presentation, preparedness,
understanding of problem and
slides
writing.
Class Attendance
5%
Homework
Policy:
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All assignments are due on the day of class time. Hard copies
with source code should be turned in at class.
Source
code is supposed to email to TA before that.
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No emails or phone calls will be replied regarding to
assignment within 24 hours of due time.
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Late submission will be deducted at 10% of each assignment
score per 24 hours.