Syllabus

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A playlist of in-class recordings is here.

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: 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: Quantification and 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: Dimensionality reduction
9	Sep 25, Thu	RNA-seq: Hypothesis testing
10	Sep 29, Mon	RNA-seq: HandsOn
10	Oct 02, Thu	Institute Holiday
11	Oct 06, Mon	Single-cell RNA-seq
11	Oct 09, Thu	Single-cell: Hands-On
12	Oct 13, Mon	Sequencing the epigenome and Hands-On
12	Oct 16, Thu	‘CRISPRing’ the genome
13	Oct 20, Mon	Institute Holiday
13	Oct 23, Thu	Perturb-seq: Hands-On
14	Oct 27, Mon	Spatial transcriptomics
14	Oct 30, Thu	Spatial: Hands-On
15	Nov 03, Mon	Genome wide association studies
15	Nov 06, Thu	GWAS: Hands-On
16	Nov 10, Mon	Course Review

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