CSCI295x Schedule 2014


(tentative)

date topic notes homework recommended readings
Major Unit. Genomics Foundations: Modeling and Measuring Evolution: Linkage Disequilibrium (LD), Urn Models
Sept. 4        
Sept. 9        
Sept. 11        
Major Unit. Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS): Statistical associations, the missing heritabililty problem, genetic heterogeneity, genomic privacy.
Sept. 16        
Sept. 18        
Sept. 23        
Major Unit. The Social Network of Protein Folds: Individual Preferences of Amino Acids and the Thermodynamic "Social Choice" Hypothesis
Sept. 25        
Sept. 30        
Oct. 2        
Major Unit. Algorithms: Maximum Likelihood and Expectation-Maximization Algorithms: Inferring haplotype frequencies in populations.
Oct. 7        
Oct. 9        
Oct. 14        
Major Unit. Algorithms: Set-cover and Minimum Informative Subset Algorithms: Tagging SNPs selection, LD.
Oct. 16        
Oct. 21        
Oct. 23        
Major Unit. Algorithms: Graph-Theory Algorithms: Haplotype Phasing, Haplotype Assembly, Identical-by-Descent Inference
Oct. 28        
Oct. 30        
Nov. 4        
Major Unit. Algorithms: Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms: Population Substructure
Nov. 6        
Nov. 11        
Nov. 13        
Major Unit. Algorithms: Statistical Hypothesis Testing and Knapsack Algorithms: The Neyman-Pearson Lemma, Multiple Testing
Nov. 18        
Nov. 20        
Nov. 25        
Major Unit. Algorithms: Voting Theory Algorithms and von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Theory: Protein Folding Energy Function Inference
Nov. 27 NO CLASS NO CLASS NO CLASS NO CLASS
Dec. 2        
Dec. 4        
Dec. 9