MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

EECS Spring 2000 Catalogue Supplement

6.892 Computational Functional Genomics (H)

TR 9:30-11, 3-442 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)
Prof. David Gifford, NE43-401, x6039
Prerequisite: 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.