PLNT4610/PLNT7690 BIOINFORMATICS

COURSE SCHEDULE - 2024

Unit	Date(s)	Topic
		I. The computer as the ultimate general-purpose tool
1	Sept. 5 Sept. 10	Information-driven science Cloud-based computing with Linux
2	Sept. 12 Sept. 17	Creating a web site with HTML
		II. DNA and protein sequence analysis
3	Sept. 19, 24	Working with DNA and protein sequence data
4	Sept. 26,  Oct. 1	Pairwise sequence similarity searches
5	Oct.     3 Oct.     8	Database Similarity Searches
6	Oct. 10 Oct. 15	Multiple sequence alignment
7	Oct. 17	Phylogenetic analysis
	Oct. 22	Midterm exam (Units 1 - 6)
7	Oct. 24, 29	Phylogenetic analysis (cond.)
		III. Biological Databases and the Cloud
8	Oct. 31, Nov. 5, 7	Flatfile, relational, and object-oriented databases
	Nov. 11 - 15	Fall break
9	Nov. 19	The Object-Oriented Web, High Performance Computing
		IV. Genomics and Transcriptomics
10	Nov. 21, 26	Genome assembly
11	Nov. 28	Genome annotation
12	Dec. 3	Transcriptomics
		Final exam (Units 7 - 12) Dec. 12, 13:30 - 15:30 Location: Animal Science 219
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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