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Spring 2006

Biophysics 205: Computational and Functional Genomics

Spring 2006

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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 :

  • 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
  • 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
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)
SS
Monday, February 13


Introduction to Motif Finding

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.
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.
SS
Monday, February 20 No Class: President's Day  
Wednesday, February 22 No Class: Biophysical Society Meeting  
Monday, February 27


Genome Comparison and Regulation

Required:

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:

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:

  • 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)
MB
Monday, March 6


Epigenetic Modifications and Gene Regulation

Epigenome Analysis

Required:

  • 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:
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.
SS
Monday, March 13


Transcriptional Gene Regulation

Regulomics

Required:

  • 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:

MB
Wednesday, March 15


Proteomics

Introduction to Proteomics

Required:

Additional Background Reading:

MB
Monday, March 20


Protein-Protein Interactions

Proteomics

Required:

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)
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:
MV
Monday, March 27 No Class: Spring Break  
Wednesday, March 29 No Class: Spring Break  
Monday, April 3


Networks and Interactions

Networks

Required:

FR
Wednesday, April 5


Networks

Required:

Supplementary Reading:
FR
Monday, April 10


Function Prediction

Required:

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
FR
Wednesday, April 12


Protein Function Prediction

Networks and Function Prediction

Required:

Supplemental Reading
FR
Monday, April 17


Metabolism Profiling

Metabolomics

Required:

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)
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.
FR
Monday, April 24


Large Scale Phenotyping

Phenotyping

Required:

MB
Wednesday, April 26


Networks

Genetic Networks

Additional Optional Reading:

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)
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

SS
Monday, May 8 Proposal Presentations  
Wednesday, May 10 Proposal Presentations  
Monday, May 15 Proposal Presentations  


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