Study guides

• Overview of Molecular Biology and Techniques (J. Kim)
• Cell Biology
  • Protein processing, cell cycle, and mitosis
  • Cell motility and adhesion
  • Signal transduction
• Genetics
  • Principles, human pedigrees
  • Cytogenetics, X-inactivation, Cancer diagnostics
  • (1) C. elegans, (2) fly, (3) mouse
  • population genetics, linkage, linkage disequilibrium, complex diseases, SNPs and haplotype blocks
• Genomics
  • Genomics
  • Genome sequencing
  • Microarrays
  • Proteomics
  • Functional genomics
  • Transposable elements
• Gene Expression
  • DNA replication and repair, transcription initiation
  • DNA, chromosome structure, control of gene expression
  • Chromatin and histone modification
  • Epigenetic transcriptional regulation: Swi-Snf and LCRs
• Mathematics
  • Probability & statistics
  • Computer Science
  • Databases
  • Boolean/Proposition/Predicate Logic
  • Finite State Automata
• Computational Biology
• Syllabus, Zip of class notes
• Repeat finding, Z-box, suffix trees, FSA
• Search problems: Pattern matching
• Sequence alignment, generative stochastic processes, HMMs
• Molecular evolution, Phylogenetics/Systematics
• (1) Gene predication, (2) promoter prediction, motif prediction
• Generative and Classification models of information, cluster analysis, SVM, neural networks

additional notes

• 04 prelim w/answers (Dexter)
• 04 practice questions w/answers (Dexter)
• Miscellaneous notes from Dan
• Warren's Phylogeny Notes, GCB531 2002
• Chi-square tutorial