Instructors:

Michael Rice ext 2184
email: mrice@wesleyan.edu

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

Meetings: MW 1.10-2.30 pm,
SH 201 (MW)
SC 72 (computer labs)

Office hours by appointment:
HA 112 (Weir)
SC 603 (Rice)

• Syllabus

• Course BlackBoard -- through electronic portfolio

• NCBI
• Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project
• FlyBase
• Interactive Fly
• Tompa, M., Lecture Notes
• Large-Scale Gene Expression and Microarray Links and Resources
• Integrative Genomic Sciences (IGS) at Wesleyan
• Appel, L., Annotated Genomics Links

Topics:

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

Assessment:

• Problem assignments
• Short written briefs
• Small group projects with individual write-ups
• BlackBoard postings
• Class participation

Skills:

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