FYS 102
Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics Links

BLAST

• BLAST at NCBI
• About BLAST

Research sources

• Library research page
• Scientific American online
• Nature online
• Nature Genetics online
• The New York Times - Science Times

Python references

• python.org is the official home of the Python language.
• How to Think Like a (Python) Programmer is a free introductory text.
• Python course in Bioinformatics is a bioinformatics-specific Python reference, but probably more than you want to know.

Thursday, October 18

• Global sequence alignment (dynamic programming): alignment-global.py

Friday, October 12

• Longest common subsequence (dynamic programming): lcs.py

Thursday, October 4

• Manhattan tourist problem (dynamic programming): manhattan_tourist.py

Wednesday, October 3

• Making change (dynamic programming): change-dp.py

Monday, October 1

• Branch and bound motif search: motif-bb.py

Friday, September 7

• Gene Hunter function: orf.py
• E. Coli 536 DNA
• Known E. Coli 536 gene locations

Wednesday, September 5

• Our first python functions: first.py

Friday, August 31

• Protein structure
• 20 Standard Amino Acids (UC Davis)
• Folding@Home (Stanford)
• Transcription (Click on "Code" on the left, then "Copying the Code" at the bottom, then "putting it together" at the top, then "Transcription" on the left.)
• Translation (Click on "Code" on the left, then "Reading the Code" at the bottom, then "putting it together" at the top, then "Translation" on the left.)

Thursday, August 30

• Key stages of mitosis and meiosis (from Griffiths, et al., Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 9th ed., p. 45)
• Video: Mitosis
• Video: Meiosis
• Video: Colbert on DNA
• The structure of DNA (from Griffiths, et al., Introduction to Genetic Analysis, 9th ed., p. 273)
• Happy Birthday, Double Helix (Wired)
• Deoxyribose vs Ribose sugars (from Klug and Cummings, Essentials of Genetics, 1997)
• DNA Replication (Click on "Code" on the left, then "Copying the Code" at the bottom, then "putting it together" at the top, then "Replication" on the left.)

Wednesday, August 29

• The cell (CUNY)
• Video: Inner Life of the Cell (Harvard)

The Human Genome Project (HGP)

• About the HGP
• The science behind the HGP
• Bioinformatics