University of California San Diego
Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I)
University of California San Diego

Finding Hidden Messages in DNA (Bioinformatics I)

This course is part of Bioinformatics Specialization

Pavel  Pevzner
Phillip Compeau

Instructors: Pavel Pevzner

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
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Some related experience required
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Approx. 15 hours
Learn at your own pace
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There are 5 modules in this course

<p>Welcome to class!</p><p>This course will focus on two questions at the forefront of modern computational biology, along with the algorithmic approaches we will use to solve them in parentheses:</p><ol><li>Weeks 1-2: Where in the Genome Does DNA Replication Begin? (<em>Algorithmic Warmup</em>)</li><li>Weeks 3-4: Which DNA Patterns Play the Role of Molecular Clocks? (<em>Randomized Algorithms</em>)</li></ol><p>Week 5 will consist of a Bioinformatics Application Challenge in which you will get to apply software for finding DNA motifs to a real biological dataset.</p><p>Each of the two chapters in the course is accompanied by a Bioinformatics Cartoon created by Randall Christopher and serving as a chapter header in the Specialization's bestselling <a href="http://bioinformaticsalgorithms.com" target="_blank">print companion</a>. You can find the first chapter's cartoon at the bottom of this message. What does a cryptic message leading to buried treasure have to do with biology? We hope you will join us to find out!</p><p><img src="http://bioinformaticsalgorithms.com/images/cover/replication_cropped.jpg" title="Image: http://bioinformaticsalgorithms.com/images/cover/chapter1_cropped.jpg" width="500"></p><p><a href="http://compeau.cbd.cmu.edu" target="_blank"><img src="http://bioinformaticsalgorithms.com/images/Compeau_caricature.jpg" width ="150"></a> <a href="http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ppevzner/" target="_blank"><img src="http://bioinformaticsalgorithms.com/images/Pevzner_caricature.jpg" width ="150"></a></p><p>Phillip and Pavel</p>

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3 videos3 readings1 assignment2 app items

<p>Welcome to Week 2 of class!</p> <p>This week, we will examine the biological details of how DNA replication is carried out in the cell. We will then see how to use these details to help us design an intelligent algorithmic approach looking for the replication origin in a bacterial genome.</p>

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2 videos1 reading1 assignment2 app items

<p>Welcome to Week 3 of class!</p> <p>This week, we begin a new chapter, titled "Which DNA Patterns Play the Role of Molecular Clocks?" At the bottom of this message is this week's Bioinformatics Cartoon. &nbsp;What does a late night casino trip with two 18th Century French mathematicians have in common with finding molecular clocks? &nbsp;Start learning to find out...</p> <p><img src="https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/bioinformatics%2Fimages%2Fchapter3_final.jpg" title="Image: https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/bioinformatics%2Fimages%2Fchapter3_final.jpg" width="528"></p>

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment2 app items

<p>Welcome to Week 4 of class!</p> <p>Last week, we encountered a few introductory motif-finding algorithms. This week, we will see how to improve upon these motif-finding approaches by designing randomized algorithms that can "roll dice" to find motifs.</p>

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment2 app items

Welcome to week 5 of the class! This week, we will apply popular motif-finding software in order to hunt for motifs in a real biological dataset.

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Pavel  Pevzner
University of California San Diego
16 Courses823,661 learners
Phillip Compeau
University of California San Diego
8 Courses282,617 learners

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