6.047/6.878 Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution
Fall 2016
Professor: Manolis Kellis
TAs: Sagar Indurkhya, Tejas G Sundaresan, Connor V Duffy
Lecture:
TR1-2.30
(32-141)
Recitation: F3
(4-237)
Information:
Covers the algorithmic and machine learning foundations of
computational biology combining theory with practice. We cover both
foundational topics in computational biology, and current
research frontiers. We study fundamental techniques, recent
advances in the field, and work directly with current
large-scale biological datasets.
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Genomes:
Biological sequence analysis, hidden Markov models, gene finding, comparative genomics, RNA structure, sequence alignment, hashing
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Networks:
Gene expression, clustering/classification, EM/Gibbs sampling, motifs, Bayesian networks, microRNAs, regulatory genomics, epigenomics
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Evolution:
Gene/species trees, phylogenomics, coalescent, personal genomics, population genomics, human ancestry, recent selection, disease mapping
In addition to the technical material in the course, the term project provides practical experience: (1) writing an NIH-style research proposal, (2) reviewing peer proposals, (3) planning and carrying out independent research, (4) presenting research results orally in a conference setting, and (5) writing results in a journal-style scientific paper. You will work on a project of your choice with regular feedback and advice from a mentor, your peers, and the teaching staff.
Announcements
Thank You!
Great job with your project presentations yesterday! And congratulations on submitting your project reports.It was a pleasure working with you all this semester. I hope you enjoyed learning about the wonders of computational biology!
Please fill out the subject evaluation! It means a lot to the course staff and to me personally as well.
Wishing you the best of luck and skill on your finals, and happy holidays.
Announced on 14 December 2016 4:40 p.m. by Connor V Duffy
Presentations
Please come listen to your peers' presentations in 32D-407 to see all the various final projects for the course this year! We have ordered pizza :)Announced on 13 December 2016 1:17 p.m. by Tejas G Sundaresan
Presentation Times Shifted Later by 30 Minutes, all presentations in 32D-407
Apologies for the last minute change, but we'll be shifting the presentation schedule today by 30 minutes from 11-2:30 to 11:30-3:00. All presentations will now be held in 32D-407. Please therefore plan on presenting around 30 minutes after your originally scheduled timeslot. New timeslots can be found on the project presentation timesheet and we've made slight changes to accommodate conflicts listed on the spreadsheet. Please let us know if you are unable to make your new presentation time. Apologies again for changing the schedule and for any inconvenience this may have caused.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CUqTnCvp_NLd-9Cztgy4-vAkR7NmoEg9VwEpKsYBH50/edit?usp=sharing
Announced on 13 December 2016 9:35 a.m. by Tejas G Sundaresan
Upload Presentations in PDF by 10 AM Sharp
We're really looking forward to hearing your project presentations tomorrow! Please remember to upload your slides in PDF to Stellar by 10 AM sharp so that we have time to download and queue them up before presentations start. Best of luck!Announced on 12 December 2016 3:28 p.m. by Connor V Duffy
Final Project Presentation - Time Slot Sign-Up
Hi all, please sign up for a final project presentation time slot at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CUqTnCvp_NLd-9Cztgy4-vAkR7NmoEg9VwEpKsYBH50/edit?usp=sharing .Time slots are only 8 minutes, so please make sure that your presentation is strictly under 6 minutes to allow for 2 minutes of questions.
Please put your names on the first slide of your presentation so that it's easy to identify. Also, we've pushed up the deadline for slide submission by one hour to 10:00 AM sharp on Tuesday so that we have time to get the slides ready in advance and eliminate transition time between presentations.
Wishing you the best of luck.
Announced on 06 December 2016 3:51 p.m. by Connor V Duffy
