PLNT4610/PLNT7690 BIOINFORMATICS

COURSE SCHEDULE - 2023

Unit	Date(s)	Topic
		I. The computer as the ultimate general-purpose tool
1	Sept. 7 Sept. 12	Information-driven science Cloud-based computing with Linux
2	Sept. 14 Sept. 19	Creating a web site with HTML
		II. DNA and protein sequence analysis
3	Sept. 21, 26	Working with DNA and protein sequence data
4	Sept. 28,  Oct. 3	Pairwise sequence similarity searches
5	Oct.     5 Oct.     10	Database Similarity Searches
6	Oct. 12 Oct. 17	Multiple sequence alignment
	Oct. 19	Mid-term exam (Units 1 - 6)
7	Oct. 24, 26	Phylogenetic analysis
		III. Biological Databases and the Cloud
8	Oct. 31, Nov. 2	Flatfile, relational, and object-oriented databases
	Nov. 7	Flatfile, relational, and object-oriented databases (cond.)
9	Nov. 9	The Object-Oriented Web, High Performance Computing
	Nov. 13 - 17	Fall break
		IV. Genomics and Transcriptomics
10	Nov. 21, 23	Genome assembly
11	Nov. 28	Genome annotation
12	Nov. 30 Dec. 5	Transcriptomics
		Final exam - Dec. 16, 13:30 - 15:30 Location: Animal Science 220
The dates and content of lectures listed above may change as the course progresses.

This schedule is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor and/or based on the learning needs of the students but such changes are subject to Section 2.8 of the – ROASS- Procedure.

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