1. Exercises
The course has no class final exam - the grade is based on the following
components:
3-4 exercise sets will be given during the course. The exercieses will consists mostly of
theoretical questions and will also include a component of
practical analysis of biological data using methods studied in
the course. Solutions should
be done independently by each student and without help from others.
Use of books and articles for the solutions is allowed and will not affect the
grading, but the sources should be noted in the solutions. Most
assignments contain built-in bonus, so by completing some 90% worth of all
exercises you will be given full score.
2. Programming project
Students will be assigned a project which will require writing code
(implementing algorithms from the literature), applying it to public gene expression
datasets and reporting the results. The project can be done in pairs.
3. Scribe
While some lectures already have good scribes, other lectures will require
revised or new lecture notes.
Pairs of students will scribe (i.e., to prepare lecture notes for) one
lecture. The notes should be prepared in LaTeX, and
corrected according to guidelines and marks given by the TA and/or the
instructor. Precise instructions and schedule are given here.
Notes should contain all the material presented in class, written in clear
and accurate fashion, as well as the relevant references. Using figures
and diagrams when necessary in order to clarify things is recommended. In most
lectures, the scribes of lectures given in
a previous year in the course can be used as a basis.
With Scribe:
1. Exercises: 60%
2. Programming Project: 20%
3. Scribe: 25%
Without Scribe:
1. Exercises: 70%
2. Programming Project: 30%
Tardiness:
Scribe preparation is done in two steps, each of which has its own
deadline. Scribe grade will lose one point for each late day past each of
the two deadlines. This is done in order to ensure that scribes are
completed and made available to the whole group promptly.
Deadlines for theoretical exercises are strict - no late submission is allowed
without prior authorization from the instructor /TA.
Late projects will lose one point for each late day.