| Description of Course |
| Professors |
Prof.
Gaston Gonnet, ETHZ
Prof. Joerg
Stelling, ETHZ |
| Lecturer |
Dr. Gina
Cannarozzi, ETHZ |
| Assistant |
Anita Lerch, Univ. Basel
Dr. Lidia Yamamoto, Univ. Basel
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| Language |
All the lectures, material and
exercises for this course will be in English. |
| Time |
Lectures: Friday 13:15-15:00
Exercises: Tuesday 8:15-10:00, Friday 15:15-17:00 |
| Starting date |
Lectures: Friday, October 27, 2006 (TBC)
Exercises: Friday, November 3, 2006 (TBC)
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| Room |
Lectures: DI 205, Departement Informatik,
Seminarraum 205, 2nd Floor
Exercises: KR U1075 |
| Content |
This course lies in the intersection between Computer
Science and Molecular Biology. The main purpose is to study
computational techniques, algorithms and data structures which are
usually applied to solve problems in Molecular Biology and
Biochemistry.
The following topics will be covered: mathematical models of
evolution, protein and DNA sequence alignment and its meaning,
phylogenetic tree construction and multiple sequence alignments.
There will also be lectures on current and more specialized topics.
From the computer science point of view we concentrate our attention
in practical solutions for the above problems.
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| Target Group |
Students in their third year or above.
The course is open to both biology and computer science
students.
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| Prerequisites |
None.
Biological knowledge is
an asset but not a prerequisite.
A strong background in probability and
statistics is suggested but not required.
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| Registration |
http://courses.cs.unibas.ch/ |
| Credit points |
5 |
| Literature |
No books are required but much of the material will come from
CBRG
(Computational Biochemistry Research Group at ETHZ)
papers and we will also follow closely some chapters from the book by
Dan Gusfield entitled "Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences".
A good reference book for Phylogeny is "Inferring Phylogenies"
by Joseph Felsenstein.
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| Resources |
Lectures in Basel
Exercises in Basel
Computational Biology Course at ETHZ (for information only)
Computational Systems Biology Course at ETHZ (for information only)
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| Evaluation |
20 minute oral exam possibly on 23.02.2006 (TBC). The student may choose to do the exam in English or in German. |
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