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CMSC 858L: Graphs and Networks in Computational Biology

Lectures

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    Biological Background and Network Construction

  1. 1/27/09: Lecture 1: Introduction
  2. 1/29/09: Lecture 2: Experimental Methods: Yeast 2-hybrid
  3. 2/3/09: Lecture 3: Other experimental protocols (TAP-MS, SSL, ChIP-chip)
  4. 2/5/09: Lecture 4: In silico prediction of edges

    Function Prediction (esp. via graph partitioning)

  5. 2/10/09: Lecture 5: Function Prediction (min mulitway cut, integer programming, neighborhood, majority, functional flow)
  6. 2/12/09: Lecture 6: Graph Summarization (guest lecture by Saket Navlakha)
  7. 2/17/09: Lecture 7: Notions of Node Similarity; Modularity; Kernighan-Lin
  8. 2/19/09: Continued slides from 2/17/09.
  9. 2/24/09: Lecture 8: Entropy; variation of information; VI-CUT
  10. 2/26/09: Lecture 9: MCODE, RNSC, started MCL
  11. 3/3/09: Finished MCL (slides above), Quiz #2

    Network Alignment, Comparison, Searching

  12. 3/5/09: Lecture 10: PathBLAST
  13. 3/10/09: Lecture 11: Functional Orthologs (board lecture; unedited lecture notes)
  14. 3/12/09: Lecture 12: Color Coding (first 9 slides)
  15. 3/24/09: midterm
  16. 3/26/09: Color Coding (Lecture 12), continued (slides above)
  17. 3/31/09: Lecture 13: IsoRank Alignment, Graemlin

    Random Graphs, Network Motifs

  18. 4/2/09: Lecture 14: Random Graphs, Degree Distribution, Network Motifs
  19. 4/7/09: Lecture 15: Random Processes for Growing Graphs
  20. 4/9/09: Lecture 16: Finding motifs via symmetry breaking

    Other Graph Algorithms in Computational Biology

  21. 4/14/09: Lecture 17: Side-chain positioning
  22. 4/16/09: Lecture 18: PCP Theorem & hardness of approximating SCP (board lecture)
  23. 4/21/09: Lecture 19: SCP via Semidefinite Programming
  24. 4/23/09: Lecture 20: Dynamics of Regulatory Networks
  25. 4/28/09: Project work day
  26. 4/30/09: Lecture 21: Phylogenetic trees & Reassortment Detection
  27. 5/5/09: Project Presentation Day #1
  28. 5/7/09: Project Presentation Day #2
  29. 5/12/09: Lecture 22: Summary, Wrap-up, etc.