Lab Schedule - Fall 2009

Labs Meet in MBB 1340 (unless otherwise noted)

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Date

(Thurs)

Topics

Exercises

Answers

Instructor

1

Aug  27

Literature Resources for Bioinformatics

  Note: This lab meets in Rm 32 Library

Lab 1

 

Andrea Dinkelman

2

Sept  3

NCBI - Sequence Databases & Tools

ISU Databases, Servers & Software

Lab 2

 

Ben Lewis

3

Sept 10

Pairwise Sequence Alignment

Database Searching (BLAST)

Lab 3

 

Usha Muppirala

4

Sept 17

Multiple Sequence Alignment

   (CLUSTAL, MultAlign)

Lab 4

 

Usha Muppirala

-

Sept 24

Review & Independent Projects

Review Study Guide #1 Answers

5

Oct   1

Synthetic Biology

   (SYNBIOS)

Lab 5

 

Deepak Reyon

6

Oct   8

Gene & Regulatory Element Prediction

   (UCSC Genome Browser)

Lab 6

 

Ben Lewis

7

Oct  15

Phylogenetic Analysis

   (CLUSTAL, PHYLIP)

Lab 7

 

Ben Lewis

8

Oct  22

Structure Databases & Visualization

   (PDB, PyMol, KiNG)

Lab 8

 

Deepak Reyon

-

Oct  29

Review & Independent Projects

Review Study Guide #2 Answers

9

Nov   5

Protein Structure Prediction

RNA Structure Prediction

Lab 9

 

Ben Lewis

10

Nov  12

Gene Function Prediction

   (Sequence-based, Structure-based)

Lab 10

 

Deepak Reyon

11

Nov  19

Microarray Analysis 

   (Clustering Algorithms)

Lab 11

 

Usha Muppirala

12

Nov 26

Network Analysis

Synthetic Biology Redux

Lab 12

 

Deepak Reyon

 

Dec  3

NO LAB – University Thanksgiving Break

-

Dec 10

BCB 544 Team Project Presentations