Syllabus

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Week	Day	Topic	Slides	Hands-on	Readings
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: Alignment
3	Aug 11, Mon	Sequencing by Synthesis
3	Aug 14, Thu	DNA mapping algorithms
4	Aug 18, Mon	Hands on DNA-seq
4	Aug 21, Thu	RNA-sequencing: Quantification algorithms
5	Aug 25, Mon	RNA-sequencing: Normalization
5	Aug 28, Thu	RNA-sequencing: Dimensionality reduction
6	Sep 01, Mon	RNA-sequencing: Multiple Hypothesis testing
6	Sep 04, Thu	RNA-sequencing: Hands-On
7	Sep 08, Mon	Single-cell sequencing
7	Sep 11, Thu	Single-cell: Hands-On
8	Sep 15, Mon	Midsem Week	❌	❌	❌
8	Sep 18, Thu	Midsem Week	❌	❌	❌
9	Sep 22, Mon	Sequencing the epigenome
9	Sep 25, Thu	Methylation: Hands-On
10	Sep 29, Mon	Chip-Seq: Hands-On
10	Oct 02, Thu	Institute Holiday
11	Oct 06, Mon	‘CRISPRing’ the genome
11	Oct 09, Thu	Perturb-seq: Hands-On
12	Oct 13, Mon	Spatial transcriptomics
12	Oct 16, Thu	Spatial: Hands-On
13	Oct 20, Mon	Institute Holiday
13	Oct 23, Thu	Genome wide association studies
14	Oct 27, Mon	GWAS: Hands-On
14	Oct 30, Thu	Course Review
15	Nov 03, Mon	Project presentation 1
15	Nov 06, Thu	Project presentation 2
16	Nov 10, Mon	Project presentation 3

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