BIOL 7711 is an introduction to the theory and practice of bioinformatics and computational biology. It is aimed at graduate students in the Computational Bioscience Program, but open to all. The course was designed by Larry Hunter and is being taught in Fall 2009 by Profs. Hunter, Pollock, Kechris, Verspoor, and Goldberg, with guest lectures by Caparaso, Wall, and Knight. TA is Ron Schuyler.

**NOTE: Larry now has an updated course web site. **

This page exists to provide students with access to David Pollock's lecture notes and materials. Information from past years that Dr. Hunter has taught the course is available at his web site. Further course information will be available here, on Dr. Hunter's web site, or on the web sites of individual professors.

Course Syllabus (pdf)

What is Computational Biology Research? (pdf)

Lectures:

HMMs and Such, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009 (pdf, ppt)

Project Proposal Review, Tuesday, Oct 6

Genome Assembly and Next Generation Sequencing, Thursday, Oct 8 (pdf) (part 1A, 1B, 1C, 2, 3)

Phylogenetics, Tuesday, Oct 20