Lecture Notes of STAT 598K

  1. Database access: NCBI    Aug 20th, 2001

  2. Pairwise alignment   Please refer to Chapter 2 of the first textbook.

  3. Markov chains and hidden Markov models   Chapter 3 of the first textbook.

  4. Pairwise alignment using HMMs   Chapter 4 of the first textbook.

  5. Profile HMMs for sequence families   Chapter 5 of the first textbook.

  6. Multiple sequence alignment methods     Chapter 6 of the first textbook.

  7. Multiple sequence alignment tools     The lecture will be a demo section in room REC 307.

  8. Building phylogenetic trees     Chapter 7 of the first textbook.

    The following topics are based on reference papers.

  9. Block motif model for aligning local functional segments of proteins.

  10. Algorithms of predicting protein functions.

  11. cDNA microarrays and oligonucleotide arrays.

  12. Cluster analysis of the array data.

  13. Gene expression data analysis, assessment of gene effects and models of variations.
    The lectures of 11/19 and 11/26 will be based on the references of

  14. Dimension reduction for array data.

  15. Bayesian network models of gene expression data