Bio 101: Genomics & Computational Biology

11/20/01


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Bio 101: Genomics & Computational Biology

Net1: Last week's take home lessons

Net2: Today's story & goals Bio101 28-Nov-2000

Algorithm Running Time

Algorithm Complexity

How to deal with NP-complete and NP-hard Problems

What can biology do for difficult computation problems

Net2: Today's story & goals Bio101 28-Nov-2000

Electronic, optical & molecular nano-computing

Optical nano-computing & self-assembly

Electronic-nanocomputing

Molecular nano-computing

DNA computing: Is there a Hamiltonian path through all nodes?

DNA Computing for st-Hamiltonian Path

Encode Graph into DNA Sequences

Create All st-Paths

DNA Computing Process

Molecular computation: RNA solutions to chess problems.

Problems of DNA Computing

Promises of DNA Computing

A sticker-based model for DNA computation.

3SAT

DNA Computing for 3SAT

DNA computing on surfaces

Net2: Today's story & goals Bio101 28-Nov-2000

Logical computation using algorithmic self-assembly of DNA triple-crossover molecules.

tiles

Nanoarray microscopy readout (vs gel assays)

Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)

Nano-ElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS)

Nanosensors

poly(dA)100 & poly(dC)100 at 15°C

Net2: Today's story & goals Bio101 28-Nov-2000

A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators

Synthetic oscillator network

Synthetic oscillator network

Internal state sensors

Net2: Today's story & goals Bio101 28-Nov-2000

Genetic Algorithms (GA)

Genetic Operations

SAGA: Sequence Alignment by Genetic Algorithm

SAGA continues

Comparison of ClustalW & SAGA

Net2: Today's story & goals Bio101 28-Nov-2000

Artificial Neural Networks

Neural Networks

An ORF Classification Example

Measuring Exons

Linear Discriminate Function and Single Layer Neural Network

Activation Function

Determining Edge Weights from Training Sets

Non-linear Discrimination

The Multi-Layer Perceptron

GRAIL

Net2: Today's story & goals Bio101 20-Nov-2000

Author: George Church

Home Page: http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~bphys101/