Chapter 1 Introduction to the cell Learning Objectives 1. About Cell Biology 2. Look briefly at the history of cell theory; 3. Consider the basic properties of cells; 4. Compare some characteristics of two different classes of cells: prokaryotes and eukaryotes; 5.comprehend a special life: viruses
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
Algorithms for detecting structure similarity Dynamic Programming works on 1D strings- reduce problem to this cant accommodate topological changes example: Secondary Structure Alignment Program(SSAP) 3D Comparison/Clustering
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