An introduction to bioinformatics, genomics and other exciting developments of the 21st century. Let's annotate the malaria genome as a focus for the course. Let's learn the Python scripting language as well.
More Formal Course Description
Instructor: Russ
B. Altman
altman@smi.stanford.edu
650-725-3394
Python consultant: Jeff Chang, jchang@smi.stanford.edu
Meeting time: Monday and Wednesday 3:30-5:00 (sometimes 5:30)
Location: MSOB X-275 Conference Room or thereabouts.
Important Resources:
Altman
Malaria Page
Stanford
Malaria Sequencing Resource
Python Scripting Language
Rasmol/Raswin molecular
display software
MAGE
molecular display software
NCBI main web page
PDB, the 3D structure database
Glimmer
home page
Useful
Lectures by Dr. Altman from MIS 214
(also see MIS
214 Course Web Page from 1999)
March 30: Introduces
basic biology and bioinformatics databases.
Assignment 1: data in course
ftp site.
Assignment 2: Very useful NCBI
malaria data ftp site