Ab initio =from the beginning in strictest sense uses first principles, not information about other protein structures In practice, all methods rely on empirical observations
1. Overview-the many levels of systems biology 2. Experimental methods for measuring protein-protein interactions and their limitations 3. Data sources for information about proteins and their
Review of DNA Seq. Comparison/Alignment Target frequencies and mismatch penalties Eukaryotic gene structure Comparative genomics applications Pipmaker(2 species comparison) Phylogenetic Shadowing(many species) Intro to DNA sequence motifs
The Language of genomics CDNAS, ESTS. BACS Alus. etc Dideoxy Method Shotgun Sequencing The 'shotgun coverage equation(Poisson) Flavors of blast BLASTIPNXJ, TBLASTINXI Statistics of High Scoring Segments