Grundlagen der Bioinformatik

Lecturers	Prof. Daniel Huson, Dr. Benjamin Albrecht, Sina Beier and Klara Reichard
Lectures	Mondays 10:15-12h, Wednesdays 10:15-12h, Hörsaal 2, Sand 6/7
Tutorials	Tuesdays, 10-12h, Wednesdays, 8-10h, 12-14h
Grading	Your grade will be based on an exam, which will be taken in two parts.
Admission to exam	Weekly participation in the tutorials in mandatory and you must achieve at least 50% of all assignment points to be admitted to the exam.
Language	Englisch
Links	Campus, Ilias

Content and script:

This course discusses some of the foundations of bioinformatics, focusing on how "how stuff works". A script will be handed out at the beginning of each lecture and also posted online in Ilias.

Schedule

Date	Topic	Assignments
16.4.	1. General Introduction (inkl. Festlegung und Einteilung der Übungsgruppen)	1
18.4.	2. Pairwise Alignment
Friday 20.4.	Jump into Java - intro to Java
23.4.	continued	2
25.4.	continued
Friday 27.4.	Jump into Java - part 2
30.4..	3. BLAST	3
2.5.	continued
7.5.	4. Multiple Sequence Alignment	4
9.5.	continued
14.5.	5. HMMs	5
16.5..	continued
28.5.	6. Phylogenetics	6
30.5..	continued	Practice exam
4.6.	continued
6.6. Hörsaal 2 Sand 6/7 (odd matriculation numbers) Seminarraum C118a Sand 14 (even)	Exam - part I (chapters 1-6)
11.6.	7. Sequencing and Assembly	7
13.6.	continued
18.6.	8. Population Genetics	8
20.6.	continued
25.6.	9. Protein Secondary Structure	9
27.6.	continued
2.7.	10. Protein Tertiary Structure	10
4.7.	continued
9.7..	11. Microbiome Analysis	11
11.7..	continued
16.7.	12. Cancer Genomics	Practice exam
18.7.	13. RNA Secondary Structure
23.7.	No lecture, just discussions and questions
25.7. 9-11h N06, Hörsaalzentrum Morgenstelle	Exam - part 2 (chapters 7 - 13)

Makeup exams: Exam part 1: Friday, 22.6. 8-10h, Hörsaal 1, Sand 6/7. Exam part 2: Friday, 28.9., 10-12h, Hörsaal 2, Sand 6/7.