Lectures on Computational Biology HC Lee Computational Biology Lab Center for Complex Systems & Biophysics National Central University EFSS II National DongHua University Hualien, 2002 July 1-5
What is Computational Biology? The use of computational techniques to model biological systems at various levels of complexity - atomic, metabolic, cellular and pathologic.
Central dogma for molecular biology DNA RNA Protein
Yeast alanyl transfer RNA DNA
Standard Genetic Code
Amino acid codes Name, 3-letter and single-letter codes Aspartic Acid Asp D Glutamic Acid Glu E Phenylanine Phe F Glycine Gly G Alanine Ala A Cystine Cys C Histidine His H Isoleucine Ile I Lysine Lys K LeucineLeu L Methionine Met M Asparagine Asn N Proline ProP GlutamineGln Q Arginine Arg R SerineSerS Threonine Thr T Valine Val V Tryptophan Trp W Tyrosine Tyr Y
A protein cartoon Sperm whale myoglobin (1MBN)
The Protein Folding Problem
Central Paradigm Central paradigm for Bioinformatics
Lecture 1 Sequence Alignment
Lecture 2 Hidden Markov Model
Lecture 3 Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny
Lecture 4 Microarray & Analysis