Course Schedule

This year, the course material has been modified and reorganized from last year, so some of the videos from 2017 may not match up exactly to this year's course.

Week Tues Lecture Tues/Thurs Labs Thurs Lecture Sun HW Due
1 (1/22)

Intro to computational biology and microarrays

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: Bioinformatics Links to an external site.

Odyssey, R, Bioconductor, 

Odyssey sign up Links to an external site. (required)

Git repo Links to an external site.

Microarray normalization, Expression index

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, Download Example

Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site., 5 Links to an external site.

Reading: RMA Links to an external site.

2 (1/29)

Differential expression, False discovery rate

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: LIMMA Links to an external site.

Python, RMA, LIMMA

Github Repo Links to an external site.

Microarray clustering, Batch effect, Gene ontology

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: COMBAT Links to an external site.

HW1 (Basics) Links to an external site.
3 (2/5)

 Dimension reduction, Unsupervised learning

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: Statistical Learning Links to an external site.

DAVID, Clustering, COMBAT

Github Repo Links to an external site.

NGS, Read mapping

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: Read mapping Tutorial Links to an external site.

4 (2/12) 

RNA-seq analysis

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site., 5 Links to an external site.

Readings: DESeq2 Links to an external site., Difference between PTM and R/FPKM Links to an external site.

PCA, SVM, BWA

Github Repo Links to an external site.

Alternative Splicing

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site.,

3 Links to an external site.

Readings: Systematic comparison of scRNA-seq techniques Links to an external site. 

scRNA-seq Overview Links to an external site.

 

HW2 (Microarrays) Links to an external site.

5 (2/19)

scRNA-seq + TF motifs

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site.

References: t-SNE Links to an external site.Seurat Links to an external site. and SCDE Links to an external site.

Salmon, DESeq2, Python 2 Links to an external site.

Motif finding

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Readings: Gibbs sampler Links to an external site.

6 (2/26)

ChIP-seq

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: MACS

scRNA-seq Links to an external site.

Integrating ChIP-seq with gene expression

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Reading: BETA Links to an external site.

HW3 (RNA-seq) Links to an external site.
7 (3/5)

Epigenetics, DNA Methylation

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1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Readings: Epigenetics review Links to an external site.

MACS2, SAMTools Links to an external site.

Hidden Markov Model

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Snow Day. Please watch 2016 Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site.

Readings: Rabiner Links to an external site.

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8 (3/12) Spring Recess Spring Recess
9 (3/19)

Histone modifications, Chromatin accessibility

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site.

Reading: ATAC-seq Links to an external site.

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BETA Links to an external site.

Long range chromatin interactions

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: Mitotic chromatin organization Links to an external site.

HW4 (scRNA-seq)
10 (3/26)

Download SNP and GWAS

Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site.

 

HMM, regression, LASSO Links to an external site.

GWAS Interpretation

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 Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Readings: EWAS Links to an external site.

11 (4/2)

Genome Sequencing, TCGA

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: Lawrence1 Links to an external site., Lawrence2 Links to an external site. 

Data manipulation Links to an external site.

Targeted therapy, drug resistance

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: CCLE Links to an external site., CRISPR Screens Links to an external site. Links to an external site. Links to an external site.

HW5 (Epigenetics and Integration)
12 (4/9)

Cancer Immunotherapy

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading: Tumor response to PD-1 antibody Links to an external site.

Other useful videos: Nature1 Links to an external site.Nature2 Links to an external site.

TCGA, tumor subtype, survival Links to an external site.

 

Cancer Epigenetics

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site.

Reading: Cancer Epigenetics Review Links to an external site.

13 (4/16)

Reproducible research

Shirley at AACR, no lecture

Just watch Video Links to an external site. by Keith Baggerly

Reading: Peng review Links to an external site., Garraway thoughts Links to an external site.

MAGeCK Links to an external site.

Download Deep learning

(Matt Ploenzke)

Slides

Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site.

HW6 (Cancer Genomics)
14 (4/23)

Final exam review

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Videos: 1 Links to an external site., 2 Links to an external site., 3 Links to an external site., 4 Links to an external site.

Reading period
15 (4/30) Reading period

Screencast videos: 

Jumanah Alshenaifi: BWA

Jiaqi Xie: HMM
Rebecca Carlson: ScanPy
Yushi Tang: Salmon

16 (5/7)