Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Volkhard Helms
Tutor: Maryam Nazarieh, Thorsten Will
Lecture: Tuesday, 10:15 am – 11:45 am, building E2 1, room 007
Tutorial: Tuesday, April 22, 12:45 am – 1:30 pm, building E2 1, room 007; from Tuesday, April 29 on at 4:00 pm
Information: This course can be used as a “Spezialvorlesung der Bioinformatik/Special-topic Lecture Bioinformatics”
Leistungspunkte/Credits:
5 (2 V + 1 Ü)
This course is taught in English language.
Conditions for certification: Students need to get at least 50% of the points from the assignments to qualify for the final exam.
Suggested date of final exam: Tuesday, August 5, 10:00 am, E2 1, 007
Schein/Certification: Successful completion of the course is equivalent to passing the written final exam that will take place near the end of the semester (end of July/beginning of August). The grade for the Schein will be equal to the grade of the final exam.
A second-chance exam will be offered at the beginning of the next winter semester.
There will be about six bi-weekly assignments and weekly tutorial sessions.
Content:
(a) topological properties of networks (after Mark Newman: Networks – An Introduction)
- centrality measures (chapter 7)
- graph partitioning (chapter 11)
- epidemics on networks (chapter 17)
(b) probabilistic networks (after Daphne Koller & Nir Friedman; Probabilistic Graphical Models
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(c) reconstructing gene-regulatory networks
- … examples from the current literature …
Requirements:
no formal requirements,
prior participation in bioinformatics III lecture is helpful but not required,
solid programming experience is recommended for completing the assignments.
Lectures:
| Lecture 1, April 15 | pptx | ||
| Lecture 2, April 22 | pptx | Assignment 1 | |
| Lecture 3, April 29 | pptx | ||
| Lecture 4, May 6 | pptx | Assignment 2 required_data |
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| Lecture 5, May 13 | pptx | ||
| Lecture 6, May 20 | pptx | Assignment 3 | |
| Lecture 7, May 27 | pptx | ||
| Lecture 8, June 3 | pptx | Assignment 4 README.txt test.tsv training.tsv |
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| Lecture 9, June 10 | pptx | ||
| Lecture 10, June 17 | pptx | Assignment 5 cancer_bn samples |
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| Lecture 11, June 24 | pptx | ||
| Lecture 12, July 1 | pptx
tutorial |
Assignment 6 Supplement.zip |
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| July 8 | no lecture | ||
| Lecture 13, July 15 | pptx | ||
| Lecture 14, July 22 | no lecture |