Schedule (tentative) and Notes 


Date Material Covered Notes, Papers Comments
Jan 4 Introduction, Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies Intro  Start Group Forming!
    6 Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies, contd. Notes
Jan 11 From Data to Networks GRN, paper 1
GRN, paper 2
Please read the papers before class
13 From Data to Network, contd. PPI paper
Metabolic Pathways paper
Project Groups Formed
18 Vladimir is out of town, no class.
20 Representing Networks Paper 1
Paper 2
Project Proposals Due
25 Tools for Networks Paper 1
Paper 2
Tutorial
Link to other tools
27 Student Presentations
Feb 1 Characterizing Networks I: Bottom-up Approaches Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3

3 Bottom-up, contd.
8 Network Modeling Combinatorial Approaches
Continuous Approaches
 
10 Guest Lecture: Prof D'Souza
her slides are here
Related paper Statistical Mechanics of Networks
15 Student Presentations
 
17 Network Inference from Large Scale Data
Paper

22 Comparing Networks
Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
Paper 4
Progress Reports Due
24  
March 1 Student Presentations  
3 Network Evolution Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
Paper 4
8  
10 Last class - Project presentations
March 19 P r o j e c t   R e p o r t s D u e