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
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: Hypothesis testing		💻
11	Oct 09, Thu	Single-cell RNA-seq
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	Genome wide association studies
14	Oct 27, Mon	Spatial transcriptomics
14	Oct 30, Thu	Spatial: Hands-On
15	Nov 03, Mon	Perturb-seq: Hands-On
15	Nov 06, Thu	GWAS: Hands-On
16	Nov 10, Mon	Course Review