Mehmet Dalkilic, PhD
Bioinformatics This is the syllabus for I519 Bioinformatics. It should viewed only as a tentative schedule of events directed by both me and you. I'm hoping to have the most fun in some time teaching this class; it will be a roller coaster ride of thinking, reading, writing, and problem solving. Our goal is three-fold: (1) to understand the particular basics of bioinformatics through formalisms, (2) to learn to problem biological or algorithmic problems in a bioinformatics' setting;l (3) to expose you to new opportunities, applications that are arising daily. This is a difficult class for several reasons--chiefly because nobody has all the background he or she needs to understand all of bioinformatics; therefore, you should understand your strengths and use those against your weaknesses. Unlike other discinplines too, bioinformatics is relatively young--and so is still settling into what it is supposed to be. You'll find a host of interpretations as you being work in this area. The core faculty of Mehmet Dalkilic (me), Sun Kim, Predrag Radivojac, Matt Hahn, and Yuzhen Ye are always available to work with you. We have added to our ranks Esfan Haghverdi who is a refugee from logic and mathematics. You'll be using two URLs--one linked from my webpage and oncourse too. My webpage will have assignments and solutions, some notes; oncourse, will have notes to the Associate Instructor (who hasn't been assigned at the moment)


The course will involve a lot of reading, problem solving, and developing your skills. Programming, algorithms, etc are very unforgiving in syntactic errors and you'll have some fun playing dectective in what's going wrong. A graduate class is very different from an undergraduate class in another respect--we do not supply all the details to problems--the onus is upon you to find the answer.

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