Spring 2006
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Biophysics 205: Computational and Functional Genomics
Spring 2006
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N.B. This syllabus is subject to change. Please check for updates
Date/Topic |
Reading |
Faculty |
Wednesday, February 1
Course Overview and Introduction to Genome Sequencing |
Suggested Background : |
MB & FR |
Monday, February 6
Single Sequence Analysis Methods |
Genome Sequence Analysis
Required:
Optional:
Suggested Background :
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Durbin, Eddy, Krogh, and Mitchison.
Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and
Nucleic Acids (On reserve at Countway and available in the Biophysics office) Chapters 1 & 3
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Zhang, MQ.
Computational prediction of eukaryotic protein-coding genes.
Nat Rev Genet. 2002 Sep;3(9):698-709. Review.
- Gibson G and Muse S.
A Primer of Genome Science (On reserve at Countway and available in the Biophysics office)
Box 2.3
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SS |
Wednesday, February 8
Homology Searches, Protein Domains, Substitution Matrices |
Protein Sequence Analysis
Required:
Protein Domain Databases
Additional Optional Reading:
- Eddy SR. Profile hidden Markov models Bioinformatics. 1998 14(9): 755-83
- Durbin et al. Biological Sequence Analysis
Chapter 5
- Gibson and Muse
Box 4.1 (First Edition) or Box 5.1 (Second Edition)
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SS |
Monday, February 13
Introduction to Motif Finding
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Motif Finding
Required:
Supplemental Reading:
- Sabo PJ, et al.
Genome-wide identification of DNaseI hypersensitive sites using active chromatin sequence libraries.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Mar 30;101(13):4537-42. Epub 2004 Mar 19.
Suggested Background :
- Gibson G and Muse S.
A Primer of Genome Science (On reserve at Countway and available in the Biophysics office)
Box 3.3. (First Edition) or Box 4.4 (Second Edition)
- Ladd AN, Cooper TA.
Finding signals that regulate alternative splicing in the post-genomic era.
Genome Biol. 2002 Oct 23; 3(11):reviews0008. Review.
- Tompa M et al.
Assessing computational tools for the discovery of transcription factor binding sites. Nat Biotechnol. 2005 Jan;23(1):137-44.
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FR |
Wednesday, February 15
Comparative Genomics: Function, Evolution and Algorithms |
Comparative Genomics
Required:
- Siepel et al.
Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes.
Genome Res. 2005 Aug;15(8):1034-50. Epub 2005 Jul 15.
- Rhoades et al.
Prediction of plant microRNA targets.
Cell. 2002 Aug 23;110(4):513-20
Suggested Background :
Supplemental Reading:
- Cooper et al.
Distribution and intensity of constraint in mammalian genomic sequence.
Genome Res. 2005 Jul;15(7):901-13. Epub 2005 Jun 17.
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SS |
| Monday, February 20 |
No Class: President's Day |
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| Wednesday, February 22 |
No Class: Biophysical Society Meeting |
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Monday, February 27
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Genome Comparison and Regulation
Required:
- Kellis M, Patterson N, Endrizzi M, Birren B, Lander ES.
Sequencing and comparison of yeast species to identify genes and regulatory elements.
Nature. 2003 May 15; 423(6937):241-54.
Supplementary Material
- Extension of Analysis to Mammals:
Xie X et al. Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in human promoters and 3' UTRs by comparison of several mammals.
Nature. 2005 Mar 17;434(7031):338-45.
- Boffelli D, McAuliffe J, Ovcharenko D, Lewis KD, Ovcharenko I, Pachter L, Rubin EM.
Phylogenetic shadowing of primate sequences to find functional regions of the human genome.
Science. 2003 Feb 28; 299(5611):1391-4.
Supplementary Material
Suggested Background (as an intro to clustering):
- Jain AK, Murty MN, Flynn PJ.
Data Clustering: A Review.
ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 31, No. 3, September 1999.
- Gibson G and Muse S.
A Primer of Genome Science
Chapter 3, Box 3.2 (First Edition) or Box 4.3 (Second Edition)
Additional Optional Reading:
- Bulyk ML
Computational prediction of transcription-factor binding site locations
Genome Biology. 2003 Dec 23;5(1): 201.
- Kellis M, Birren BW, Lander ES.
Proof and evolutionary analysis of ancient genome duplication in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Nature. 2004 Apr 8;428(6983):617-24. Epub 2004 Mar 07.
- Lynch M, Katju V.
The altered evolutionary trajectories of gene duplicates.
Trends Genet. 2004 Nov;20(11):544-9.
- Cliften P, Sudarsanam P, Desikan A, Fulton L, Fulton B, Majors J, Waterston R, Cohen BA, Johnston M.
Finding functional features in Saccharomyces genomes by phylogenetic footprinting.
Science. 2003 Jul 4;301(5629):71-6. Epub 2003 May 29.
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MB |
Wednesday, March 1
Transcriptional Analysis |
Transcriptional Analysis
Required:
Supplemental Reading:
- Stolc V, et al.
A gene expression map for the euchromatic genome of Drosophila melanogaster.
Science. 2004 Oct 22;306(5696):655-60.
Supplementary Material
- Bertone P, et al.
Global identification of human transcribed sequences with genome tiling arrays.
Science. 2004 Dec 24;306(5705):2242-6. Epub 2004 Nov 11.
Background Reading:
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Lockhart DJ and Winzeler EA
Genomics, gene expression and
DNA arrays. Nature. 2000 June 15;405: 827-836.
- Stoughton RB.
Applications of DNA microarrays in biology.
Annu Rev Biochem. 2005;74:53-82. Review.
- Gibson and Muse
Chapter 3 (first edition) or Chapter 4 (second edition)
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MB |
Monday, March 6
Epigenetic Modifications and Gene Regulation |
Epigenome Analysis
Required:
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Cheng YW, Shawber C, Notterman D, Paty P, Barany F. Multiplexed profiling of candidate genes for CpG island methylation status using a flexible PCR/LDR/Universal Array assay.
Genome Res. 2005 Dec 20; [Epub ahead of print]
- Yuan GC et al.
Genome-scale identification of nucleosome positions in S. cerevisiae.
Science. 2005 Jul 22;309(5734):626-30. Epub 2005 Jun 16.
- Liu CL et al.
Single-nucleosome mapping of histone modifications in S. cerevisiae.
PLoS Biol. 2005 Oct;3(10):e328. Epub 2005 Aug 30.
Background Reading:
- Fazzari MJ, Greally JM.
Epigenomics: beyond CpG islands.
Nat Rev Genet. 2004 Jun;5(6):446-55. Review.
- Laird PW.
Cancer epigenetics.
Hum Mol Genet. 2005 Apr 15;14 Spec No 1:R65-76. Review.
- Felsenfeld G, Groudine M.
Controlling the double helix.
Nature. 2003 Jan 23;421(6921):448-53. Review.
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MB |
Wednesday, March 8
Transcriptional Regulatory Networks |
Transcriptional Regulatory Networks
Required:
Optional:
- Bar-Joseph Z et al.
Computational discovery of gene modules and regulatory networks.
Nat Biotechnol. 2003 Nov;21(11):1337-42. Epub 2003 Oct 12.
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SS |
Monday, March 13
Transcriptional Gene Regulation |
Regulomics
Required:
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Simon I et al.
Serial regulation of transcriptional regulators in the yeast cell cycle.
Cell. 2001 Sep 21; 106(6):697-708.
Supplemental Website
- Rajewski et al.
Computational detection of genomic cis-regulatory modules applied to body patterning in the early Drosophila embryo.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2002 Oct 24;3:30. Epub 2002 Oct 24.
Additional Background Reading:
- Schroeder MD et al.
Transcriptional control in the segmentation gene network of Drosophila. PLoS Biol. 2004 Sep;2(9):E271. Epub 2004 Aug 31. (Specifically helpful to presenter of Rajewsky et al.)
Hypergeometric Distribution Information:
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MB |
Wednesday, March 15
Proteomics |
Introduction to Proteomics
Required:
- Huang J, Zhu H, Haggarty SJ, Spring DR, Hwang H, Jin F, Snyder M, Schreiber SL
Finding new components of the target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling network through chemical genetics and proteome chips.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Nov 23;101(47):16594-9. Epub 2004 Nov 11.
Supplementary Tables
- Gygi SP, Rist B, Gerber SA, Turecek F, Gelb MH, Aebersold R
Quantitative analysis of complex protein mixtures using isotope-coded affinity tags.
Nat Biotechnol . 1999 Oct; 17(10):994-9.
- Huh WK, Falvo JV, Gerke LC, Carroll AS, Howson RW, Weissman JS, O'Shea EK.
Global analysis of protein localization in budding yeast.
Nature. 2003 Oct 16; 425(6959):686-91.
Supplementary Material
Additional Background Reading:
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MB |
Monday, March 20
Protein-Protein Interactions |
Proteomics
Required:
To be presented together:
- Gavin AC, et al.
Proteome survey reveals modularity of the yeast cell machinery.
Nature. 2006 Jan 22; [Epub ahead of print]
- Ho Y, Gruhler A, Heilbut A, Bader GD, ...Mann M, Hogue CW, Figeys D, Tyers M.
Systematic
identification of protein complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by mass
spectrometry. Nature. 2002 Jan 10; 415(6868):180-3.
Supplementary Material
- Neduva V, Linding R, Su-Angrand I, Stark A, De Masi F, Gibson TJ, Lewis J, Serrano L, Russell RB.
Systematic discovery of new recognition peptides mediating protein interaction networks.
PLoS Biol. 2005 Dec;3(12):e405. Epub 2005 Nov 15.
Supplemental Reading:
Background Reading:
- Cusick ME, Klitgord N, Vidal M, Hill DE.
Interactome: gateway into systems biology.
Hum Mol Genet. 2005 Oct 15;14 Spec No. 2:R171-81. Epub 2005 Sep 14. Review.
- Gibson G and Muse S.
A Primer of Genome Science
p. 202-204 (first edition) or p. 283-289 (second edition)
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MV |
Wednesday, March 22
Protein Networks |
Pathways
Required:
- Monod J, Jacob F.
Teleonomic mechanisms in cellular metabolism, growth, and differentiation.
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 1961; 26:389-401.
- Elowitz MB, Leibler S.
A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators.
Nature. 2000 Jan 20; 403(6767):335-8.
Additional Reading/Resources:
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MV |
| Monday, March 27 |
No Class: Spring Break |
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| Wednesday, March 29 |
No Class: Spring Break |
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Monday, April 3
Networks and Interactions |
Networks
Required:
To be presented together:
- Albert R, Jeong H, Barabasi AL.
Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
Nature. 2000 Jul 27; 406(6794):378-82.
- Jeong H, Mason SP, Barabasi AL, Oltvai ZN.
Lethality and centrality in protein networks.
Nature. 2001 May 3; 411(6833):41-2.
Supplementary Methods Supplementary Results
- Aloy P et al.
Structure-based assembly of protein complexes in yeast.
Science. 2004 Mar 26;303(5666):2026-9.
Supplementary Material
- Milo R, Shen-Orr S, Itzkovitz S, Kashtan N, Chklovskii D, Alon U.
Network motifs: simple building blocks of complex networks.
Science. 2002 Oct 25;298(5594):824-7. Supplementary Material
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FR |
Wednesday, April 5
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Networks
Required:
Supplementary Reading:
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FR |
Monday, April 10
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Function Prediction
Required:
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Overbeek R, Fonstein M, D'Souza M, Pusch GD, Maltsev N.
The use of gene clusters to infer functional coupling.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA . 1999 Mar 16; 96(6):2896-901.
Supplementary Material
- Lee I, Date SV, Adai AT, Marcotte EM.
A probabilistic functional network of yeast genes.
Science. 2004 Nov 26;306(5701):1555-8
Supplementary Material
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Wilson CA, Kreychman J, Gerstein M. Assessing annotation transfer for genomics: quantifying the relations between protein sequence, structure and function through traditional and probabilistic scores. J Mol Biol. 2000 Mar 17;297(1):233-49.
Supplemental Reading:
- Marcotte EM et al.
Detecting protein function and protein-protein interactions from genome sequences.
Science. 1999 Jul 30; 285(5428):751-3
- Tian W, Skolnick J.
How well is enzyme function conserved as a function of pairwise sequence identity?
J Mol Biol. 2003 Oct 31;333(4):863-82
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FR |
Wednesday, April 12
Protein Function Prediction |
Networks and Function Prediction
Required:
- Yeang CH, Mak HC, McCuine S, Workman C, Jaakkola T, Ideker T.
Validation and refinement of gene-regulatory pathways on a network of physical interactions.
Genome Biol. 2005;6(7):R62. Epub 2005 Jul 1. Supplementary Information
- Jim K, Parmar K, Singh M, Tavazoie S.
A cross-genomic approach for systematic mapping of phenotypic traits to genes.
Genome Res. 2004 Jan;14(1):109-15.
Supplementary Information
- Sharan R, Suthram S, Kelley RM, Kuhn T, McCuine S, Uetz P, Sittler T, Karp RM, Ideker T.
Conserved patterns of protein interaction in multiple species.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Feb 8;102(6):1974-9. Epub 2005 Feb 1.
Supplementary Information
Supplemental Reading
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FR |
Monday, April 17
Metabolism Profiling |
Metabolomics
Required:
- Allen J, Davey HM, Broadhurst D, Heald JK, Rowland JJ, Oliver SG, Kell DB.
High-throughput classification of yeast mutants for functional genomics using metabolic footprinting .
Nat Biotechnol . 2003 Jun ;21 (6):692-6. Epub 2003 May 12.
Supplementary Material
- Famili I, Forster J, Nielsen J, Palsson BO.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae phenotypes can be predicted by using constraint-based analysis of a genome-scale reconstructed metabolic network.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Nov 11; 100(23):13134-9. Epub 2003 Oct 24
Supplementary Material
- Romero P, Wagg J, Green ML, Kaiser D, Krummenacker M, Karp PD.
Computational prediction of human metabolic pathways from the complete human genome.
Genome Biol. 2005;6(1):R2. Epub 2004 Dec 22.
Supplemental Reading:
- Green ML, Karp PD.
A Bayesian method for identifying missing enzymes in predicted metabolic pathway databases.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2004 Jun 9;5:76.
- Raamsdonk LM, et al.
A functional genomics strategy that uses metabolome data to reveal the phenotype of silent mutations.
Nat Biotechnol. 2001 Jan;19(1):45-50.
- Forster J, Famili I, Fu P, Palsson BO, Nielsen J.
Genome-scale reconstruction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolic network.
Genome Res. 2003 Feb;13(2):244-53.
- Gibson G and Muse S.
A Primer of Genome Science
Chapter 6 p. 301-308 (first edition) p. 333-339 (second edition)
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SS |
Wednesday, April 19
Phenotyping |
Phenotyping
Required:
- Giaever G, et al.
Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.
Nature. 2002 Jul 25; 418(6896):387-91.
Supplemental Data
Supplementary Methods
To be presented together:
- Nolan PM et al.
A systematic, genome-wide, phenotype-driven mutagenesis programme for gene function studies in the mouse.
Nat Genet. 2000 Aug;25(4):440-3.
- Bacon Y, et al.
Screening for novel ENU-induced rhythm, entrainment and activity mutants.
Genes Brain Behav. 2004 Aug;3(4):196-205.
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FR |
Monday, April 24
Large Scale Phenotyping |
Phenotyping
Required:
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MB |
Wednesday, April 26
Networks |
Genetic Networks
- Parsons AB, Brost RL, Ding H, Li Z, Zhang C, Sheikh B, Brown GW, Kane PM, Hughes TR, Boone C.
Integration of chemical-genetic and genetic interaction data links bioactive compounds to cellular target pathways.
Nat Biotechnol. 2004 Jan;22(1):62-9. Epub 2003 Dec 07
Supplementary Material
- Tong AH, et al.
Global mapping of the yeast genetic interaction network.
Science. 2004 Feb 6;303(5659):808-13.
Supplementary Material
- Zupan B, Demsar J, Bratko I, Juvan P, Halter JA, Kuspa A, Shaulsky G.
GenePath: a system for automated construction of genetic networks from mutant data.
Bioinformatics. 2003 Feb 12;19(3):383-9.
GenePath Website
Additional Optional Reading:
- Tong AH, et al.
Systematic genetic analysis with ordered arrays of yeast deletion mutants.
Science. 2001 Dec 14;294(5550):2364-8.
- Pan X, et al.
A robust toolkit for functional profiling of the yeast genome. Mol Cell. 2004 Nov 5;16(3):487-96.
- Juvan P, Demsar J, Shaulsky G, Zupan B.
GenePath: from mutations to genetic networks and back.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server issue):W749-52.
Supplementary Information
- Gibson and Muse
Box 5.2 (second edition)
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FR |
Monday, May 1
Variation, Polymorphism, and Linkage Analysis |
Variation
Required:
Optional Reading:
- Pollack JR, et al.
Microarray analysis reveals a major direct role of DNA copy number alteration in the transcriptional program of human breast tumors.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Oct 1;99(20):12963-8. Epub 2002 Sep 24.
- Peacock E, Whiteley P.
Perlegen sciences, inc.
Pharmacogenomics. 2005 Jun;6(4):439-42.
Background Reading:
- Carlson CS, Eberle MA, Kruglyak L, Nickerson DA.
Mapping complex disease loci in whole-genome association studies.
Nature. 2004 May 27;429(6990):446-52. Review.
- Gibson G and Muse S.
A Primer of Genome Science
Chapter 5 (first edition) or Chapter 3 (second edition)
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SS |
Wednesday, May 3
SNPs, Variation
Future Directions of Genomics |
Variation
Required:
- Stranger BE, et al.
Genome-Wide Associations of Gene Expression Variation in Humans.
PLoS Genet. 2005 Dec 16;1(6):e78 [Epub ahead of print]
- Schadt EE, et al.
An integrative genomics approach to infer causal associations between gene expression and disease.
Nat Genet. 2005 Jul;37(7):710-7. Epub 2005 Jun 19.
Optional Reading:
- Bustamante C, et al.
Natural selection on protein-coding genes in the human genome.
Nature. 2005 Oct 20;437(7062):1153-7.
- Williamson SH, et al.
Simultaneous inference of selection and population growth from patterns of variation in the human genome.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 31;102(22):7882-7. Epub 2005 May 19.
Structural Genomics (Optional):
- Xie L, Bourne PE
Functional Coverage of the Human Genome by Existing Structures, Structural Genomics Targets, and Homology Models.
PLoS Comput Biol. 2005 Aug 19;1(3):e31 [Epub ahead of print]
- Chandonia JM, Brenner SE.
The impact of structural genomics: expectations and outcomes.
Science. 2006 Jan 20;311(5759):347-51. Review.
Course Wrap-Up / Outlook
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| Monday, May 8 |
Proposal Presentations |
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| Wednesday, May 10 |
Proposal Presentations |
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| Monday, May 15 |
Proposal Presentations |
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