MCB112 schedule

As we progress through the course, links to lecture and section notes, psets, and pset answers get added here, and also in a more abbreviated form in the sidebar of the MCB112 web pages.

week 00: Mon/Wed 26/28 Jan
intro, welcome, and preview

week 01: Mon/Wed 2/4 Feb
molecular biology of phage genomes

week 02: Mon/Wed 9/11 Feb
probability, entropy, and information

week 03: Wed 18 Feb (Mon is President's Day)
P-values and statistical significance tests

week 04: Mon/Wed 23/25 Feb
tidy tabular data

week 05: Mon/Wed 2/4 Mar
sequence comparison and alignment

week 06: Mon/Wed 9/11 Mar
probability, likelihood, and Bayesian inference

[spring break week 16-20 March]

week 07: Mon/Wed 23/25 Mar
expectation-maximization algorithms

week 08: Mon/Wed 30 Mar/1 Apr
hidden Markov models

week 09: Mon/Wed 6/8 Apr
mixture models and k-means clustering

week 10: Mon/Wed 13/15 Apr
regression fitting

week 11: Mon/Wed 20/22 Apr
principal components analysis (PCA)

week 12: Mon/Wed 27/29 Apr
phylogenetic inference

Fini! Harvard reading period begins Thurs 30 April -- no further assignments. Last assignment due after reading period, in finals week, on Wed 13 May. No final exam.