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.

week 00: Wed 2 Aug
welcome and preview
[Lecture notes] [Section notes] [Example "pset" (not to turn in, just to see)] [Example "pset" answers)]

week 01: Mon/Wed 9/11 Sept
molecular biology of phage genomes
[Lecture notes]
[Section notes - Python]
[Section notes - Molecular biology]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 02: Mon/Wed 16/18 Sept probability, entropy, and information
[Lecture notes]
[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 03: Mon/Wed 23/25 Sept
tidy tabular data [Lecture notes]
[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 04: Mon 30 Sept/Wed 2 Oct
sequence comparison and alignment
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[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 05: Mon/Wed 7/9 Oct
probability, likelihood, and inference -- Bayes
[Lecture notes]
[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 06: Wed 16 Oct (Mon is Indigenous People's Day)
P-values and statistical significance tests
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[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 07: Mon/Wed 21/23 Oct
expectation-maximization [Lecture notes]
[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 08: Mon/Wed 28/30 Oct
hidden Markov models
[Lecture notes]
[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 09: Mon/Wed 4/6 Nov
mixture models and k-means clustering [Lecture notes]
[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 10: Mon/Wed 11/13 Nov
regression fitting
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[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

week 11: Mon/Wed 18/20 Nov
principal components analysis (PCA) [Lecture notes]
[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

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

week 13: Mon/Wed 2/4 Dec phylogenetic inference
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[Section notes]
[Homework]
[Answers]

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.