University of Wisconsin-Madison
Summer Research Program
Bioinformatics Lectures
Summer, 2006
Room 7515 MSC

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Michael Molla - 6570 Medical Sciences Center - 263-7610

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(WARNING: Due to the ammount of animation, some of these will make very little sense printed or "pdf"ed)

Lecture 1: Sequencing

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Lecture 2: The "Central Dogma" and Gene Chips

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• WEHI-TV DNA Molecular Animations
• Gene Chip Animation

Lecture 3: Clustering Gene Expression Data

Lecture 4: Inferring Phlogenetic Trees

Lecture 5.1: Markov Chain Models

Lecture 5.2: X-Ray Crystallography and Molcular Visualization

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Lecture 5.3: Protein Folding and Protein Interfaces

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Lecture 6: Supervised Learning

• PCA Tutorial
• WEKA Machine Learning Tools

Homework 1

Homework 2

• L. Hunter. Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists. In Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology, L. Hunter editor, 1993, AAAI Press.
• L. Hunter. Life and Its Molecules: A Brief Introduction. AI Magazine 25(1):9-22, 2004.
• DOE Primer on Molecular Genetics
• Human Genome Project: Frequently Asked Questions