ZOO 5903 Sect 001   Bioinformatics: Applications,  3 hour
MW 10:30 - 11:45  NH122 (Nielsen Hall computer lab)
Tom Ray, 325-3526, 203-0703, Sutton Hall Room 210
http://www.ou.edu/cas/zoology/bioinformatics_course.htm

Reading List. 

"Post-Genome Informatics" by Minoru Kanehisa
Paperback - 148 pages 1st edition (March 15, 2000)
Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0198503261

"Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis" by David W. Mount
Paperback - 692 pages 2nd edition (July, 2004)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; ISBN: 0879697121

"Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 10 Minutes" by John Ray
Paperback - 224 pages 1 edition (February 9, 1999)
Sams; ISBN: 0672315246

The book by David Mount will be referred to as "Mount".

Dates indicate the date by which the specified reading should be completed.
Some assignments are long, so please start early, to finish by the
specified date.

 1  Aug 22  M no reading assignment

 2  Aug 24  W   "Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 10 Minutes" by Ray & Underhill

 3  Aug 29  M   "Post-Genome Informatics" by Minoru Kanehisa

 4  Aug 31  W   Mount: Chapter 1: Historical Introduction and Overview

 5  Sep  7  W   Mount: Chapter 2: Collecting and Storing Sequences in the ...

 6  Sep 12  M   no reading assignment

 7  Sep 14  W   no reading assignment

 8  Sep 19  M   no reading assignment

 9  Sep 21  W   no reading assignment

10  Sep 26  M   no reading assignment

11  Sep 28  W   Mount: Chapter 3: Alighment of Pairs of Sequences

12  Oct  3  M   no reading assignment

13  Oct  5  W   Mount: Chapter 5: Multiple Sequence Alignment

14  Oct 10  M   no reading assignment

15  Oct 12  W   Mount: Chapter 6: Database Searching for Similar Sequences

16  Oct 17  M   no reading assignment

17  Oct 19  W   no reading assignment

18  Oct 24  M   no reading assignment

19  Oct 26  W   Mount: Chapter 9: Gene Prediction

20  Oct 31  M   no reading assignment

21  Nov  2  W   no reading assignment

22  Nov  7  M   no reading assignment

23  Nov  9  W   Mount: Chapter 10: Protein Classification and Structure ...

24  Nov 14  M   Mount: Chapter 11: Genome Analysis

25  Nov 16  W   no reading assignment

26  Nov 21  M   Mount: Chapter 13: Analysis of Microarrays

27  Nov 28  M   Mount: Chapter 7: Phylogenetic Prediction

28  Nov 30  W   no reading assignment

29  Dec  5  M   no reading assignment

30  Dec  7  W   Mount: Chapter 12: Bioinformatics Programming Using Perl ...

IMPORTANT: This reading list is tentative.  There will be changes.