Instructor
: Prof. Benny Chor (benny@cs.tau.ac.il), Schreiber, room 223.
Teaching Assistants : Tamir
Tuller (tamirtul@post.tau.ac.il), Schreiber, room M20 (basement).
Where : Schreiber, Room 309.
When : Mondays
The workshop is open is open to 3rd year Computer Science students, but
students of the bioinformatics track will have higher priority in registering.
The workshop will provide hands on experience in implementing various optimization techniques, developing statistical tools for analyzing biological data, and using public biological databases. Most (but not all) projects have both research and implementation aspects. We offer projects in various current subjects in computational biology, including analysis of gene expression data and DNA microarrays, analysis of gene structure, understanding genomic pathways, construction of phylogenetic trees and networks, etc.
The workshop also includes
three lectures on various topics in software engineering, given by the Computer
Science system staff. These will include subjects relevant to medium to
large scale software project. Students are expected to utilize these tools and
techniques in the final projects and documentation. Attending these three
lectures is mandatory.
An integral part of the workshop is presenting
an outline of the project, as well as the completed project, to all participants (not just the course staff). It is
mandatory to physically attend class during these entire parts of the workshop,
which are expected to take place on March 29th (outlines presentation) and
during the last three meetings (final projects presentation). Naturally,
your projects should be completed by then, and submitted no later than the last day of the semester.
Projects will be performed in groups consisting of at most two students (if the
number of students is odd, one triplet may be
allowed).
In the first two weeks, each group must choose two preferred projects and send them to Tamir
(tamirtul@post.tau.ac.il).
We will try to match choices with availability, but in case of collisions,
assignments will be based on the time at which the request reaches Tamir's
mailbox.
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Feb. 21 |
Lecture: Introduction to
BioInformatics. Administratrivia. |
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Feb. 28 |
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March 7 |
Lecture on parallel processing and
Condor by Edward
Aronovich from the CS system staff (slides). |
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March 14 |
No Meeting |
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March 21 |
No Meeting |
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March 28 |
Meeting
cancelled due to teachers/students strike |
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April 4 |
Outlines of all planned projects presented by students in
class (10 minutes per group) |
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April |
Lecture on selected software engineering topics by CS system staff |
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May |
Presentation of completed projects in class
(20 minutes per group) |
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June |
Last date for projects submission, including detailed
presentation of the projects to the course staff. |
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Tamir Tuller |
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