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MIT 7.91J Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology

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1 1. Introduction to Computational and Systems Biology 1:06:11 2015-01-20
2 2. Local Alignment (BLAST) and Statistics 1:16:48 2015-01-20
3 3. Global Alignment of Protein Sequences (NW, SW, PAM, BLOSUM) 1:20:01 2015-01-20
4 4. Comparative Genomic Analysis of Gene Regulation 1:22:38 2015-01-20
5 5. Library Complexity and Short Read Alignment (Mapping) 1:20:06 2015-01-20
6 6. Genome Assembly 1:08:14 2015-01-20
7 7. ChIP-seq Analysis; DNA-protein Interactions 1:21:28 2015-01-20
8 8. RNA-sequence Analysis: Expression, Isoforms 1:20:28 2015-01-20
9 9. Modeling and Discovery of Sequence Motifs 1:22:06 2015-01-20
10 10. Markov and Hidden Markov Models of Genomic and Protein Features 1:18:26 2015-01-20
11 11. RNA Secondary Structure; Biological Functions and Predictions 1:22:40 2015-01-20
12 12. Introduction to Protein Structure; Structure Comparison and Classification 1:05:51 2015-01-20
13 13. Predicting Protein Structure 1:04:22 2015-01-20
14 14. Predicting Protein Interactions 1:11:38 2015-01-20
15 15. Gene Regulatory Networks 1:19:19 2015-01-20
16 16. Protein Interaction Networks 1:20:50 2015-01-20
17 17. Logic Modeling of Cell Signaling Networks 1:14:15 2015-01-20
18 18. Analysis of Chromatin Structure 1:20:30 2015-01-20
19 19. Discovering Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) 1:22:13 2015-01-20
20 20. Human Genetics, SNPs, and Genome Wide Associate Studies 1:17:57 2015-01-20
21 21. Synthetic Biology: From Parts to Modules to Therapeutic Systems 1:21:46 2015-01-20
22 22. Causality, Natural Computing, and Engineering Genomes 51:47 2015-01-20
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