Computing in Molecular Biology
MCB 432
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(http://www.life.uiuc.edu/mcb/432/)
Tentative List of Topics
Introduction
What is Interesting in a Sequence?
Data
- The NCBI Entrez System
- Other Data of Interest in Molecular Biology
Similar and Homologous Sequences
- Similarity as a Tool for Function Analysis
- Finding Locally Similar Sequences
- Sequence Alignment
- Motifs, Profiles and Blocks
- Global Sequence Alignment
- Multiple Sequence Alignment
Molecular Phylogeny
- Methods
- Maximum Parsimony
- Models
- Distances
- Maximum Likelihood
- Errors and Uncertainties
DNA Analysis
- Composition, Sites and Patterns
- Transcription-Related Features
- Coding Sequences
RNA Analysis
- Translation and Splicing
- RNA Folding
Proteins
- Physical Properties
- Structural Features
Genomes
- Comparative Genomics
- Lateral Gene Transfer
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