Instructors:

Danny Krizanc ext 2186
email: dkrizanc@wesleyan.edu

Michael Weir ext. 2402
email: mweir@wesleyan.edu

Meetings: TuTh 2.40-4.00 pm,
SCIE 74 & SCIE 141

Office hours by appointment:
HA 112 (Weir)
SCIE 631 (Krizanc)

Teaching Assistant:
Will Gladstone ext 3957
email: wgladstone@wesleyan.edu

Recitation session:
W 4.00-5.00 pm, SCIE 74

• Syllabus

• Python
• Python Regular Expressions Tutorial
• Tompa, M., Lecture Notes
• NCBI
• Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
• Integrative Genomic Sciences (IGS) at Wesleyan
• Appel, L., Annotated Genomics Links

Topics:

• Programming in bioinformatics
• Informatics & molecular biology of DNA, RNA and protein
• Sequence analysis
• RNA secondary structures
• Genome projects
• Gene expression, clustering methods

Assessment:

• Problem assignments
• Small group projects with individual write-ups
• Class participation

Skills:

• Python programming
• Informatic thinking
• Critical analysis
• Bridging/integrating fields
• Developing informatics issues in biology

Learning Python, 3/e 2008
Mark Lutz
O'Reilly