Unit

Date

Instr.

Topic

I. The computer as the ultimate general-purpose tool

1

Sept. 8
Sept. 13

BF

Information-driven science
Network computing with Unix
Lecture & Lab   

2

Sept. 15
Sept. 20

BF

Operating systems, hardware and software
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
Lecture & Lab

II. DNA and protein sequence analysis

3

Sept. 22
Sept. 27

BF

Working with DNA and protein sequence data
Lecture & Lab

4

Sept. 29
Oct. 4

BF

Sequence similarity searches
Lecture
Lab:Dot-matrix searches
Lab:Pairwise similarity searches

5

Oct.   6
Oct. 11

BF

Database Similarity Searches
Lecture & Lab

6

Oct. 13
Oct. 18

BF

Multiple sequence alignment
Lecture & Lab

Oct. 25

Mid-term exam (PLNT4610 only)
8:30 - 9:45 Animal Science 107

7

Oct. 20
Oct. 27

BF

Phylogenetic analysis
Lecture & Lab

III. Molecular markers

8

Nov. 1
Nov. 3

BF

Molecular markers and phylogeny
Lecture & Lab

9

Nov.   8
Nov. 10

BF

Molecular markers and linkage mapping
Lecture & Lab

IV. Biological databases

10

Nov. 15
Nov. 17

BF

Flatfile, relational, and object-oriented databases
Lecture & Lab

11

Nov. 22

BF

The Object-Oriented Web
Lecture & Lab

V. Gene expression data

12

Nov. 24

BF

Microarrays
Lecture

13

Nov. 29
Dec. 1

BF

VI. Student presentations (extra session if needed)

Dec. 9

Final exam (PLNT4610 only)
Friday Dec. 9, 13:30 - 15:30, Agriculture 134.