Computational Functional Genomics

Lecture Notes

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TOPICS

LECTURERS

Part 1: Using DNA Sequence to Explain Mechanism

1

Course Introduction (PDF)

David Gifford

2

Pairwise Alignment (PDF)

David Gifford

3

Finding Regulatory Sequences in DNA: Motif Discovery (PDF)

Tommi Jaakkola

4

Finding Regulatory Sequences in DNA: Motif Discovery (cont.) (PDF)

Tommi Jaakkola

Part 2: Observing the Mechanism of Transcriptional Regulation

5

Microarray Technology (PDF)

David Gifford

6

Expression Arrays, Normalization, and Error Models (PDF)

Tommi Jaakkola

7

Expression Profiles, Clustering, and Latent Processes (PDF)

Tommi Jaakkola

8

Computational Functional Genomics (PDF)

David Gifford

9

Stem Cells and Transcriptional Regulation

David Gifford

10

Part One: An Example of Clustering Expression Data (PDF)

Part Two: Computational Functional Genomics (cont.) (PDF)

David Gifford

11

Project Group Meetings

12

Project Group Initial Presentations

Students

13

Computational Discovery of Regulatory Networks(PDF - 2.3 MB(Courtesy of Georg Gerber. Used with permission.)

Georg Gerber (Guest Lecturer)

14

RNA Silencing (PDF)

David Bartel (Guest Lecturer)

Part 3: Building Predictive Network Models of Transcriptional Regulation

15

Computational Functional Genomics (cont.) (PDF)

David Gifford

16

Human Regulatory Networks (PDF)

David Gifford

17

Protein Networks

David Gifford

18

Causal Models (PDF)

Tommi Jaakkola

19

Causal Bayesian Networks, Active Learning (PDF)

Tommi Jaakkola

20

From Biological Data to Biological Insight (PDF)

Nir Friedman (Guest Lecturer)

21

Modeling Transcriptional Regulation (PDF)

Tommi Jaakkola

22

Dynamics

David Gifford

Assignments

ASSIGNMENTS

SUPPORTING MATERIALS

Problem Set 1 (PDF)

Problem Set 2 (PDF)

Code (ZIP) (The ZIP file contains: 22 .m files.)

Data (ZIP - 1.9 MB) (The ZIP file contains: 2 .fasta files.)

Code Diagram (JPG)

Bound ORFs (FA)

Revised Load Sequences (M)

Problem Set 3 (PDF)

Problem Set 4 (PDF)

Code and Data (ZIP) (The ZIP contains: 1 .ps file, 1 .pdf file, 2 .mat files, and 11 .m files.)

Bayes Net Toolbox (BNT) for MATLABĀ®

Projects

An integral part of the course is a student project component that is based on our case study theme of understanding biological mechanism. Interdisciplinary groups of students are encouraged to work together to develop novel analysis methodologies to examine recent data.

Following are examples of student reports on their projects. (Files are courtesy of the authors, used with permission.)

"Modeling the Human Transcriptome using Factor Analysis," by Garrett Frampton (PDF)

"Spectral Clustering for Microrray Data," by Alvin Liang, Cameron Wheeler, and Grant Wang (PDF)

"Using Phylogenomics to Predict Novel Fungal Pathogenicity Genes," by Ying Li, David DeCaprio, and Hung Nguyen (PDF)

"Whole-genome Analysis of GCN4 Binding in S.cerevisiae," by Alex Mallet, and Lillian Dai (PDF)