SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TEHNOLOGY

BIOINFORMATICS
FALL 2005

 

LECTURE NOTES


COURSE INFORMATION

OBJECTIVE

The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive coverage of principles of bioinformatics, including various algorithms for well-known applications.

INSTRUCTOR
Prof. Yucel Altunbasak

Office: GCATT-370

Phone: 404 385 1341

E-mail:
yucel@ece.gatech.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays 6-7PM in class.

TIME & LOCATION
Tuesday, Thursday, 04:35pm - 05:55 pm
Van Leer C341, Van Leer-Electrical Eng

TEXTBOOK
Required Text: Biological sequence analysis: Probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids, R. Durbin, S. Eddy, A. Krogh, and G. Mitchison 

HONOR CODE
Please uphold the academic honor code (see http://www.gatech.edu/honor/). Violations will be reported to the office of Vice-President for Student Services

GRADING 

 

Percentage

Midterm

           30

Final

30

Labs

30

Pop Quiz

10

Instructor

10


POP QUIZZES
We will have pop-quizzes time to time. They will not be announced beforehand, and they may also be given at the beginning of the lectures.

EXPECTATIONS
You should be familiar with introductory probability and statistics concepts. You are expected to have taken courses on linear algebra, probability, random processes, and signal processing.

TENTATIVE OUTLINE
We will follow the textbook closely.