BIF 400 -- Bioinformatics Capstone -- Spring 2008
Instructor: Debra Thomas Burhans, Ph.D.
Lecture: Tues 8:00-9:45 OM 224, Thurs 8:00-9:45 OM 115
Class Web Page: http://cs.canisius.edu/~burhans/400.html
Office Location: Wehle Technology Center Room 207 E
Email: burhansd at canisius dot edu
Office Telephone: (716) 888-2433
Office Hours: Tues 3:30-5:00, Wed 9:00-11:00, Fri 8:00-10:00 and by appointment
Lecture Materials
Syllabus (PDF)
Homework Problems from Ch 2 Due Tues Jan 22: 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.10, 2.13, 2.19
Homework Problems from Ch 4 Due Tues Jan 29: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.9. 4.12, 4.13
Homework Problems from Ch 5 and addition problems from class Due Thurs Feb
14: 1 - run Dijkstra's algorithm (single source shortest path) on graph G,
2 - run Kruskal's algorithm on the same
graph, 5.4, 5.13, 5.14
Homework Problems from Ch 6 Due Tuesday Feb 26: 6.1 (assume you have a
function you call call that looks a word up in the dictionary, e.g., InDict(w)), use the Lewis Carroll approach to convert the word snow into the
word rain, 6.5, 6.6, 6.13, 6.18, 6.19, 6.20, 6.31.
Laboratory Materials
- Lab 1 - assigned Jan 17 (Thurs), due Jan 23 (Weds), review of on-line sequence
comparison resource, review of Perl
- Lab 2 - assigned Jan 24 (Thurs), due Jan 30 (Weds), Motifs
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- Lab 3 - assigned Jan 31 (Thurs), due Feb 6 (Weds), Intro to MatLab
- Lab 4 - assigned Feb 7 (Thurs), due Feb 13 (Weds), MatLab
continued, Greedy Algorithms, programs from HW
- Lab 5 - assigned Feb 14 (Thurs), due Feb 25 (Mon) sequence
alignment and gene finding
- Stats Lab - assigned April 22 (Tues), due May 1 (Thur)
On-Line Resources
Textbook
On-Line Tools
Dictionaries/Glossaries
Bioinformatics