Syllabus

IITB’s academic calendar is here and holiday calendar is here.

A playlist of in-class recordings is here.

Online Interactive Tools

There are a couple of interactive web tools to help understand key concepts covered in this course.

Week	Day	Topic	Slides	Hands-on	Readings	Video
1	Jul 28, Mon	Introduction to the course	🔖		📚 📚 📚
1	Jul 31, Thu	A short introduction to molecular biology	🔖	💻	📚📚📚📚
2	Aug 04, Mon	Sequences: Probability & Statistics	🔖
2	Aug 07, Thu	Sequences: Statistics & Alignment	🔖
3	Aug 11, Mon	Sequences: Global Alignment	🔖		📚	🎥
3	Aug 14, Thu	Sequences: Local Alignment and Database Search	🔖		📚📚	🎥
4	Aug 18, Mon	Guest Lecture
4	Aug 21, Thu	Alignment Review & Sequencing by Synthesis	🔖	💻	📚	🎥
5	Aug 25, Mon	Sequencing 3.0	🔖		📚📚	🎥
5	Aug 28, Thu	DNA mapping algorithms	🔖			🎥
6	Sep 01, Mon	Hands on DNA-seq	🔖	💻 💻		🎥
6	Sep 04, Thu	DNA mapping algorithms II	🔖
7	Sep 08, Mon	RNA-sequencing	🔖		📚	🎥
7	Sep 11, Thu	RNA-seq: HandsOn	🔖	💻
8	Sep 15, Mon	MidSem Exam (Closed book/notes) 6:30 PM - 8:30PM LC101 Venue map
8	Sep 18, Thu	Midsem Week	🔖
9	Sep 22, Mon	RNA-seq: Quantification	🔖			🎥
9	Sep 25, Thu	RNA-seq: Normalisation	🔖	💻		🎥
10	Sep 29, Mon	MidSem Discussion
10	Oct 02, Thu	Institute Holiday
11	Oct 06, Mon	RNA-seq: Hands ON	🔖	💻		🎥
11	Oct 09, Thu	Dimensionality Reduction	🔖			🎥
12	Oct 13, Mon	Hypothesis testing	🔖	💻		🎥
12	Oct 16, Thu	Single-cell RNA-sequencing	🔖			🎥
13	Oct 20, Mon	Institute Holiday
13	Oct 23, Thu	scRNA-seq II	🔖	💻
14	Oct 27, Mon	scRNA-seq HandsOn		💻		🎥
14	Oct 30, Thu	Genome wide association studies	🔖
15	Nov 03, Mon	Sequencing the epigenome	🔖
15	Nov 05, Wed	Course Review	🔖			🎥