MCB112 schedule

As we progress through the course, links to lecture and section notes, psets, and pset answers get added here, and also in the sidebar of the mcb112 web site.

Dates here are accurate, but the schedule of topics will likely be updated before the course starts in fall. This is the first year we will be teaching the new "Biological Sequence Analysis" version of the course, after several years of "Biological Data Analysis" in the past.

week 00: Wed 2 Aug
welcome and preview
(no pset)

week 01: Mon/Wed 9/11 Sept
molecular biology of genes and gene expression
Python and the command line

week 02: Mon/Wed 16/18 Sept Probability, entropy, and information
Sequence conservation

week 03: Mon/Wed 23/25 Sept
Data exploration and visualization -- subsampling data

week 04: Mon 30 Sept/Wed 2 Oct
Sequence comparison and alignment

week 05: Mon/Wed 7/9 Oct
probability, likelihood, and inference -- Laplace and Bayes

week 06: Wed 16 Oct (Mon is Indigenous People's Day)
P-values and statistical significance tests

week 07: Mon/Wed 21/23 Oct
hidden Markov models

week 08: Mon/Wed 28/30 Oct
mixture models and expectation maximization

week 09: Mon/Wed 4/6 Nov
regression as probabilistic inference

week 10: Mon/Wed 11/13 Nov
TBD

week 11: Mon/Wed 18/20 Nov
TBD

week 12: Mon 25 Nov
work patterns in computational research
no pset - Thanksgiving weekend

week 13: Mon/Wed 2/4 Dec TBD

Fini! Harvard reading period begins Thurs 5 Dec -- no further assignments. Last assignment due after reading period, in finals week, on Wed 11 Dec. No final exam.