MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Spring 2002 Catalogue Supplement

6.892 Computational Functional Genomics (H)

TR 2:30-4, Room 37-212
Professor David Gifford, Room NE43-401, 3-6039
Prereq.: 6.034, 7.28 or permission of instructor
3-0-9

Seminar based study and discussion of computational approaches and algorithms for contemporary problems in functional genomics. Topics include DNA chip design, experimental data normalization, expression data representation standards, proteomics, gene clustering, self-organizing maps, boolean networks, statistical graph models, Bayesian network models, continuous dynamic models, statistical metrics for model validation, model elaboration, experiment planning, and the computational complexity of functional genomics problems.