Novosibirsk State University, Chair of Informational Biology

Selected courses (content, sample slides, etc.).

Computational Systems Biology

  1. Genomic Regulatory Signals (example slides)
    • Mechanisms of transcriptional control
    • The databases on transcriptional regulation
    • Conformational and physicochemical context-dependent DNA properties used for functional sites recognition and analysis. B-DNA Video Internet system.
    • Gene expression control on the mRNA translation stage
    • The recognition of promoters
    • Analysis and recognition of transcription factor binding sites
  2. Computational Genomics (example slides)
    • Internet-resources for DNA sequence search and analysis
    • General subject of bioinformatics
    • Databases on Genes and Genomes
    • Repeats in DNA, formal description and analysis
    • Consensus, position weight matrices, sequence alignment methods
    • Machine learning methods overview: hidden Markov models, neural networks, genetic algorithm
    • Methods for eukaryotic gene structure annotation
    • Statistical approaches used for different recognition techniques: accuracy comparison
    • Investigation of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of transcriptome
  3. Gene networks (example slides)
    • Reconstruction gene network and analysis of their properties
    • The arhitecture of gene network
    • Apoptosis gene network
    • The development networks
    • Gene network complexity of prokaryotes and eukaryotes
    • The principle of organization of metabolic networks