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 25/27 Jan
intro, welcome, and preview

week 01: Mon/Wed 1/3 Feb
molecular biology of phage genomes

week 02: Mon/Wed 8/10 Feb
probability, entropy, and information

week 03: Wed 17 Feb (Mon is President's Day)
tidy tabular data

week 04: Mon/Wed 22/24 Feb
sequence comparison and alignment

week 05: Mon/Wed 1/3 Mar
probability, likelihood, and Bayesian inference

week 06: Mon/Wed 8/10 Mar
P-values and statistical significance tests

[spring break week 15-19 March]

week 07: Mon/Wed 22/24 Mar
expectation-maximization algorithms

week 08: Mon/Wed 29/31 Marr
hidden Markov models

week 09: Mon/Wed 5/7 Apr
mixture models and k-means clustering

week 10: Mon/Wed 12/14 Apr
regression fitting

week 11: Mon/Wed 19/21 Apr
principal components analysis (PCA)

week 12: Mon/Wed 26/28 Apr
phylogenetic inference

Fini! Last pset due Wed 5 May. No final exam.