CSB.100/7.89 Topics in Computational and Systems Biology
Fall 2007
Professor: Christopher B Burge
TA: Leah Octavio
Lecture: F 11-1 (56-402)
Information:
Seminar based on research literature. Papers covered are selected to illustrate important problems and different approaches in the field of computational and systems biology, and provide students a framework from which to evaluate new developments.
Announcements
Supplemental readings for 11/9 - Synthetic Biology
Please read the two supplemental readings posted for next week'sdiscussion. The first is a 2-page 'Brief Communication' about the effects of noise on circadian clocks, which is related to the oscillators discussed in Paper 1. The second is a review on riboswitches which provides background related to paper 2.
Announced on 04 November 2007 10:15 a.m. by Christopher Burge
Supplemental primers for 11/2
Hi everyone,
Supplemental background material recommended by Joel Voldman for 11-2 are posted. The Thorsen et al paper introduced Quake's approach, and the Xia/Whitesides reference has a good review on micropatterning. For a review on stem cell biology,the Weissman review paper and the NIH review give info about MSC's and HSC's.
Leah
Announced on 27 October 2007 8:40 p.m. by Leah Octavio
Wednesday meeting time change
Hi everyone,
Just as a reminder, the Wednesday meeting time has been changed to 11am-1pm, except Nov 7 and Dec 12 which will be 10.30am- 12.30pm. It's still in the same room (56-402).
Leah
Announced on 16 October 2007 4:47 p.m. by Leah Octavio
Note for discussion leaders
Hi Everyone,For discussion leaders, a reminder to spend a majority of class time leading the discussion - asking questions, raising issues, etc. - rather than presenting. In preparing for leading the discussion, spend most of your time thinking of what issues you want to bring up to talk about. The number of slides should be no more than about 5 to at most 15 in order to leave enough time for discussion.
Cheers,
Chris
Announced on 08 October 2007 5:15 p.m. by Christopher Burge
Storey & Tibshirani paper: stats primer
Hi everyone,
For those of you who might want to review some statistics related to the Storey /Tibshirani paper (like p-values etc.), please refer to chapter 5 of the Stats primer.
Leah
Announced on 28 September 2007 3:55 p.m. by Leah Octavio