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Computational Functional Genomics

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2014 · Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology

Topics

  • Course Introduction: History of Computational Biology; Overview of the Course; Course Policies and Mechanics; DNA Sequencing Technologies
  • Local Alignment (BLAST) and Statistics
  • Statistics; Significance Testing; Bonferroni Correction
  • Global Alignment of Protein Sequences (NW, SW, PAM, BLOSUM)
  • Comparative Genomic Analysis of Gene Regulation
  • Clustering, Model Selection, and BIC Scores
  • Library Complexity and Short Read Alignment (Mapping)
  • Burrows–Wheeler Transform (BWT) and Alignments. Guest Lecture: Heng Li ( Broad Institute )
  • Genome Assembly
  • ChIP-seq Analysis; DNA-protein Interactions
  • Simultaneous ChIP-seq Peak Discovery and Motif Sampling
  • RNA-sequence Analysis: Expression, Isoforms
  • Modeling and Discovery of Sequence Motifs (Gibbs Sampler, Alternatives)
  • Gene Expression Program Discovery Using Topic Models
  • Markov and Hidden Markov Models of Genomic and Protein Features
  • RNA Secondary Structure—Biological Functions and Prediction
  • Probabilistic Grammatical Models of RNA Structure
  • Introduction to Protein Structure; Structure Comparison and Classification
  • Protein Amino Acid Sidechain Packing Using Markov Random Fields
  • Predicting Protein Structure
  • Predicting Protein Interactions
  • Protein / Protein Interaction Prediction Using Threading
  • Gene Regulatory Networks
  • Protein Interaction Networks
  • Regression Trees
  • Logic Modeling of Cell Signaling Networks. Guest Lecture: Doug Lauffenburger
  • Analysis of Chromatin Structure
  • BayesNets
  • Discovering Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs)
  • Narrow Sense Heritability
  • Human Genetics, SNPs, and Genome Wide Associate Studies
  • Synthetic Biology: From Parts to Modules to Therapeutic Systems. Guest Lecture: Ron Weiss
  • Causality, Natural Computing, and Engineering Genomes. Guest Lecture: George Church
  • Presentations
  • Presentations (cont.)

Readings

Spring 2005

Topics

  • Course Introduction
  • Pairwise Alignment
  • Finding Regulatory Sequences in DNA: Motif Discovery
  • Finding Regulatory Sequences in DNA: Motif Discovery (cont.)
  • Microarray Technology
  • Expression Arrays, Normalization, and Error Models
  • Expression Profiles, Clustering, and Latent Processes
  • Computational Functional Genomics
  • Stem Cells and Transcriptional Regulation
  • Part One: An Example of Clustering Expression Data
  • Project Group Meetings
  • Project Group Initial Presentations
  • Computational Discovery of Regulatory Networks
  • RNA Silencing
  • Computational Functional Genomics (cont.)
  • Human Regulatory Networks
  • Protein Networks
  • Causal Models
  • Causal Bayesian Networks, Active Learning
  • From Biological Data to Biological Insight
  • Modeling Transcriptional Regulation
  • Dynamics

Readings

  • LEC #: 2 · TOPICS: Pairwise Alignment · READINGS: Durbin, R., S. R. Eddy, A. Krogh, and G. Mitchison. Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780521629713.
    Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Finding Regulatory Sequences in DNA: Motif Discovery · READINGS: Hughes, et al. Journal of Molecular Biology 296, no. 5 (2000): 1205-14.
    Reading assignment
  • Qun Pan, et al. “Revealing Global Regulatory Features of Mammalian Alternative Splicing Using a Quantitative Microarray Platform.” Molecular Cell 16 (December 22, 2004): 929–941.
    Listed reading
  • Wen Zhang, et al. “The Functional Landscape of Mouse Gene Expression.” Journal of Biology (2004): 3:21.
    Listed reading
  • Tong Ihn Lee, et al. “Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae .” Science (2002).
    Listed reading
  • Hwa Yang, Yee, et al., “Normalization for cDNA Microarray Data: A Robust Composite Method for Addressing Single and Multiple Slide Systematic Variation.” Nucleic Acid Research 30, no. 4 (2002).
    Listed reading
  • Newton, et al. “On Differential Variability of Expression Ratios: Improving Statistical Inference about Gene Expression Changes from Microarray Data.” Journal of Computational Biology 8, no. 1 (2001).
    Listed reading
  • Eisen, et al. “Cluster Analysis and Display of Genome-wide Expression Patterns.” PNAS 95, no. 25 (1998).
    Listed reading
  • Liao, et al. “Network Component Analysis: Reconstruction of Regulatory Signals in Biological Systems.” PNAS 100, no. 26 (2003).
    Listed reading
  • Listed reading
  • Reading assignment
  • LEC #: 9 · TOPICS: Stem Cells and Transcriptional Regulation · READINGS: Dor, Y., J. Brown, O. Martinez, and D. A. Melton. “Adult Pancreatic Beta-cells are Formed by Self-duplication Rather Than Stem-cell Differentiation.” Nature 429, no. 6987 (2004): 41-6.
    Reading assignment
  • Alizadeh, et. al. “Distinct Types of Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Identified by Gene Expression Profiling.” Nature 403 (February 2000).
    Listed reading
  • Ramalho-Santos, et. al. “Stemness: Transcriptional Profiling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells.” Science 298 (October 2002).
    Listed reading
  • Ivanova, et. al. “A Stem Cell Molecular Signature.” Science 298 (October 2002).
    Listed reading
  • Fortunel, et al. “Comment on” ‘Stemness’: Transcriptional Profiling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells," and “A Stem Cell Molecular Signature”." Science 302, no. 5644 (2003): 393.
    Listed reading
  • Evsikov, et al. “Comment on” ‘Stemness’: Transcriptional Profiling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells," and “A Stem Cell Molecular Signature”." Science 302, no. 5644 (2003):393.
    Listed reading
  • Ivanova, N. B., et al. “Response to Comments on” ‘Stemness’: Transcriptional Profiling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells," and “A Stem Cell Molecular Signature”." Science 302, no. 5644 (2003): 393.
    Listed reading
  • Vogel. “‘Stemness’ Genes Still Elusive.” Science 302 (October 2003).
    Listed reading
  • Heckerman, David. “A Tutorial on Learning with Bayesian Networks.” Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-95-06 (1996).
    Listed reading
  • Hartemink, Alex. “Principled Computational Methods for the Validation and Discovery of Genetic Regulatory Networks.” MIT PhD Thesis (2001).
    Listed reading
  • Reading assignment
  • Li, et al., “A Map of the Interactome Network of the Metazoan C. elegans .” Science 303 (January 2004).
    Listed reading
  • Giot, et al. “A Protein Interaction Map of Drosophila melanogaster .” Science 302 (December 2003).
    Listed reading
  • Gavin, et al. “Functional Organization of the Yeast Proteome by Systematic Analysis of Protein Complexes.” Nature 415 (January 2002).
    Listed reading
  • Ho, et al. “Systematic Identification of Protein Complexes in Sacchormyces Cerevisiae by Mass Spectrometry.” Nature 415 (January 2002).
    Listed reading
  • Tong, Lesage, et al. “Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network.” Science 303 (February 2004).
    Listed reading
  • Phizicky, Bastiaens, Zhu, Snyder, and Fields. “Protein Analysis on a Proteomic Scale.” Nature 422 (March 2003).
    Listed reading
  • von Mering, et al. “Comparative Assessment of Large-scale Data Sets of Protein-protein Interactions.” Nature 417 (May 2002).
    Listed reading
  • Heckerman. “A Tutorial on Learning with Bayesian Networks.” Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-95-06, 1996.
    Listed reading
  • Yeang, et al. “Physical Network Models.” Journal of Computational Biology 11, nos. 2-3 (2004): 243-263.
    Listed reading
  • Gavin, A. C., et al. “Functional Organization of the Yeast Proteome by Systematic Analysis of Protein Complexes.” Nature 415, no. 6868 (2002): 141-7.
    Listed reading
  • Tong, A. H., et al. “Global Mapping of the Yeast Genetic Interaction Network.” Science 303, no. 5659 (2004): 808-13.
    Listed reading
  • Arkin, Ross, and McAdams. “Stochastic Kinetic Analysis of Developmental Pathway Bifurcation in Phage Lambda-Infected Escherichia coli Cells.” Genetics 149 (August 1998): 1633–1648.
    Listed reading
  • Gilman, Arkin. “Genetic ‘Code’: Representations and Dynamic Models of Genetic Components and Networks.” Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 3 (2002): 341–69.
    Listed reading
  • McAdams, Arkin. “It’s A Noisy Business!: Gene Regulation at the Nanomolar Scale.” Trends in Genetics 15 (1999): 65-69.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Simulation of Genetic Circuits.” Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct 27 (1998): 199–224.
    Listed reading
  • Gillespie. “Exact Stochastic Simulation of Coupled Chemical Reactions.” Journal of Physical Chemistry 81, no. 25 (1977): 2340-2361.
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