Class Hours: Wed 5:00pm -
Classroom: Conv-B106

Professor: Dr. Young-Rae Cho    (email: youngcho@yonsei.ac.kr)
       Office: Chang-328
       Office Hours: TBA

Course Web Page: https://ads.yonsei.ac.kr/faculty/bioinformatics/

Description

An advanced level course to discuss computational issues on analysing biological network data. The focus of this course is on design, development, and analysis of algorithms for analysis of bio-networks and bio-ontologies.

Objectives

To develop computational skills of designing algorithms to analyze biological network data. To gain experience of research to develop and evaluate computational methods in Bioinformatics.

Grading

Assignment 1 (10%) Assignment 2 (10%) Assignment 3 (10%) Assignment 4 (10%) Presentation 1 (15%) Presentation 2 (15%) Project Report (30%) No exam

Project

Algorithm design, development, implementation, and evaluation to analyze (biological) networks Presentation: oral presentation (required) Submission: project report in a paper style (required) Graded by (1) method (technical quality) and (2) experiment (evaluation design)

Topics & Tentative Schedule

Week Topic Due 1  Orientation   2  Bio-Ontologies & Semantic Similarities   3   Assignment 1 4  Bio-Networks   5   Assignment 2 (4/2) 6  Paper Presentations (1) Assignment 3 (4/13) 7  Paper Presentations (2)   8  - Assignment 4 9  Paper Presentations (3)   10  Paper Presentations (4)   11     12  Project Presentations (1)   13  Project Presentations (2)   14  Project Presentations (3)   15  Project Presentations (4) Project Report (6/15)