| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/30 | Introduction (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 1-3 | |
| 02/01 | 02/02: last day to add/drop/audit | |||
| 2 | 02/06 | Molecular Biology Primer, Restriction Mapping (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 3, 4.1-4.3 | HW1 out |
| 02/08 | ||||
| 3 | 02/13 | Restriction Mapping, Motif Finding (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 4 | |
| 02/15 | ||||
| 4 | 02/20 | No Class | Follow Monday (Presidents' Day) schedule | |
| 02/22 | Business trip | |||
| 5 | 02/27 | Genome Rearrangements, Edit Distance (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 5, Chap. 6.1-6.5 | HW2 out |
| 03/01 | ||||
| 6 | 03/06 | Edit Distance, Sequence Alignment (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 6.1-6.9 | |
| 03/08 | ||||
| 7 | 03/13 | Midterm Review (PDF) | ||
| 03/15 | Midterm exam | |||
| 8 | 03/20 | No Class | Spring Vacation | |
| 03/22 | ||||
| 9 | 03/27 | Sequence Alignment, Multiple Alignment (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 6.6-6.10 | Project proposal due, HW3 out |
| 03/29 | ||||
| 10 | 04/03 | Guest lecture, Gene Prediction (PDF) | Chap. 6.11-6.15 | |
| 04/05 | ||||
| 11 | 04/10 | Divide-and-Conquer (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 7 | HW4 out |
| 04/12 | 04/13: Last day to withdraw from a class | |||
| 12 | 04/17 | Graph Algorithms (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 8 | |
| 04/19 | ||||
| 13 | 04/24 | Graph Algorithms (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 8 | |
| 04/26 | Project progress report due | |||
| 14 | 05/01 | Clustering and Trees (PDF, PDF) | Chap. 10 | |
| 05/03 | ||||
| 15 | 05/08 | Presentations | ||
| 05/10 | ||||
| 16 | 05/15 | Final review (PDF) | Project due | |
| 05/18 | Final Exam, 11:30am-2:30pm | Note that this is a Friday |