Tentative schedule (still subject to change)

Oct 22, 1-3: Introduction + Structure and function of the cell (Belöningen)
Lecturer: Gunilla Westermark, IBK
Literature: One of the following:
Henrik Brändén. Molekylär biologi. Studentlitteratur.
William D Stansfield et al. Outline of molecular biology. McGraw-Hill
Professional Publishing 1996
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Oct 26, 1-3: Genome organization and DNA replication (Belöningen)
Lecturer: Lena Eklund, IBK
Literature: One of the following:
Henrik Brändén. Molekylär biologi. Studentlitteratur.
William D Stansfield et al. Outline of molecular biology. McGraw-Hill
Professional Publishing 1996
Oct 29, 10-12: Regulation of gene expression (Estraden)
Lecturer: Malin Bergman Jungeström, IBK
Literature: One of the following:
Henrik Brändén. Molekylär biologi. Studentlitteratur.
William D Stansfield et al. Outline of molecular biology. McGraw-Hill
Professional Publishing 1996
Nov 2, 10-12: The basic toolbox of gene technology (Belöningen)
Lecturer: Lena Eklund, IBK
Literature: One of the following:
Henrik Brändén. Molekylär biologi. Studentlitteratur.
William D Stansfield et al. Outline of molecular biology. McGraw-Hill
Professional Publishing 1996
Nov 5, 1-3: The Human Genome Project - the story of Bioinformatics (Estraden)
Lecturer: Lena Eklund, IBK
Literature: One of the following:
Henrik Brändén. Molekylär biologi. Studentlitteratur.
William D Stansfield et al. Outline of molecular biology. McGraw-Hill
Professional Publishing 1996
Nov 9, 1-3: Cellular metabolism and regulation (Estraden)
Lecturer: Peter Strålfors, IBK
Literature: One of the following:
Henrik Brändén. Molekylär biologi. Studentlitteratur.
William D Stansfield et al. Outline of molecular biology. McGraw-Hill
Professional Publishing 1996
Nov 12, 1-3: Models of Physiology (Belöningen)
Lecturer: Per Ask, IMT and Sivert Lindström, IBK
Literature: To be announced
Additional reading: To be announce
Nov 16, 1-3: Probabilistic Modeling for Sequence Analysis (Belöningen)
Lecturer: Timo Koski, MAI
Literature: http://www.wadsworth.org/resnres/bioinfo/tut1/index.htm
Additional reading: P. Baldi & S. Brunak: Bioinformtics: a machine learning approach
Nov 19, 1-3: Genome Comparison (Belöningen)
Lecturer: Svante Linusson, MAI
Literature: Chapter 10 in Pevzner, Pavel, "Computational Molecular Biology, An algorithmic Approach", MIT Press.
Additional reading: All of Pevzner, Pavel, "Computational Molecular Biology, An algorithmic Approach", MIT Press, and
Sankoff and Nadeau (Editors), "Comparative Genomics", Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Nov 23, 1-3: Protein structure prediction (Belöningen)
Lecturer: Ulf Nilsson, IDA
Literature: R. Backofen. The Protein Structure Prediction Problem: A Constraint Optimization Approach using a New Lower Bound. J. Constraints (to appear).
Additional reading: K. Dill et al. Principles of Protein Folding - A Perspective From Simple Exact Models. Protein Science, 4:561-602, 1995.
Nov 26, 1-3: Biological databases (Belöningen)
Lecturer: Patrick Lambrix, IDA
Literature: Davidson, S., Crabtree, J., Brunk, B., Schug, J., Tannen, V., Overton, C., and Stoeckert, C., K2/Kleisli and GUS: Experiments in integrated access to genomic data sources, IBM Systems Journal, Issue on Deep computing for the life sciences, 40(2):512-531, 2001.
Davidson, S., Overton, C., and Buneman, P., Challenges in Integrating Biological Data Sources, Journal of Computational Biology, 2:557-572, 1995.
Goble, C., Stevens, R., Ng, G., Bechhofer, S., Paton, N., Baker, P., Peim, M., and Brass, A., Transparent access to multiple bioinformatics information sources, IBM Systems Journal, Issue on Deep computing for the life sciences, 40(2):532-551, 2001
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Nov 29, 1-3: Data mining (Estraden) NOTE: CHANGE OF DAY
Lecturer: Ankica Babic, IMT
Literature: Data Mining for Research and Systems in Bioinformatics, Compendium from IMT, (to be distributed)
Dec 18: Classification and clustering (CANCELLED!)
Lecturer: Jan Komorowski, NTNU
Literature: To be announced
Additional reading: To be announced

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