| Bioinformatics I | |||
| Module | Date | Class | Primary Instructor |
| 1 | Jan 10 | Introduction and overview | Rob Edwards and David Nelson |
| 2 | Jan 17 | Introduction to BLAST search and analysis | David Nelson |
| Jan 24 | Review - no class | ||
| 3 | Jan 31 | Advanced features of the BLAST technique | David Nelson |
| 4 | Feb 7 | VectorNTI for DNA | Rob Edwards |
| Feb 14 | Review - no class | ||
| 5 | Feb 21 | VectorNTI for proteins | Rob Edwards |
| 6 | Feb 28 | Other sequence analysis packages | Rob Edwards |
| 7 | Mar 7 | Multiple sequence alignment | David Nelson |
| 8 | Mar 14 | PHYLIP and phylogenetic trees | David Nelson |
| 9 | Mar 21 | Genomics and sequencing | Rob Edwards |
| 10 | Mar 28 | Annotation in eukaryotic genomes | David Nelson |
| 11 | Apr 4 | Building genes without gene models | David Nelson |
| Apr 11 | Review - no class | ||
| Bioinformatics II | |||
| 1 | Apr 18 | Non-genbank public databases | David Nelson |
| 2 | Apr 25 | Private databases, politics, and ethics | Rob Edwards |
| 3 | May 2 | Genome browsers, NCBI, UCSB, etc | Rob Edwards |
| 4 | May 9 | Gene arrays, construction and use | Divyen Patel, Ramin Homayouni |
| 5 | May 16 | Gene Mapping in mouse and human | Rob Williams |
| 6 | May 23 | RasMol and Cn3D | Rob Edwards |