Schedule

Below is a tentative schedule of covered topics and associated activities. The schedule is subject to change with the addition of guest appearances.

Week	Topic	Reading
1	Introduction to the course, careers	Read the syllabus
1	No lab	N/A
2	DNA Basics, Central Dogma of Biology, Replication of DNA and other basics, Activity 01	Chap 1
2	Lab: Software Tools	See GitHub repository
3	BioPython Basics, Activity 02	Chap 1
3	Lab: BioPython and Silent Mutations	Hand out
4	Reading Frames, Mutations, Begin Sequence Alignment, Activity 03	Chap 2, 3
4	Lab: Tool Intro And Presentation	Hand out
5	Sequence Alignment, Needleman-Wunsch algorithm (Global Alignment)	Chap 3
5	Lab: No new assignment	Hand out
6	Biopython and Sequence Alignment, Activity 04	Chap 3, Chap 4, HandOut
6	Lab: seq Analysis	Hand out
7	Fall Break; No Class
7	No lab	N/A
7	Activity 05 BuildADatabase
8	Blast and protein blast	Chapters 4 and 5
8	Lab: article and tool	Hand out
9	SubMatrices: Pam and BLOSUM. Test Week: Activity 06 (video)
9	Lab: See last week’s lab
10	Gene Assembly Activity 07	Chapter 8 and 9
10	Lab: Ethics in Bioinformatics Research	Hand out
11	Protein research websites Activity 08
11	Lab:	Hand out
12	Final project assignment
12	Lab:	Hand out
13	Thanksgiving
14	Activity 09 and Activity 10
14	Lab:	Hand out
15	BeagleTM
16	Course Summary
16	Presentations
16	Presentations