Harvard:Biophysics 101/2007
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Current tasks:
- April 10: Sumary of class priorities - sign up for new problems.
- March 15: Write a python script to automate the previous exercise. Due Mar 20.
- Discussion Board currently being used...
- Project page and project discussion page are also useful now that we've formalized a plan.
- March 13: Post your query sequence in fasta format for task 2, but keep your solution private for now.
Course overview
Focuses on modern technologies with exponential growth and their impact on global quality of life through weekly updated Wiki class project (in-depth case studies on personal genomics and/or biofuels). Integrating knowledge, tools for research, and commercial decision-making concerning new aspects of bioengineering, personalized medicine, genetically modified organisms, and stem cells. Interplays of biophysical, ecological, economic, and social/ethical modeling will be explored through multi-disciplinary teams of students, and individual brief reports.
Potential course projects
Earth 2.0
- Analytic: Bioweather map. Collection and use of real-time assays to track virus outbreaks, etc.
- Synthetic: Bioenergy. Integrated metabolic, genetic, economic, process, environmental modeling.
H. sapiens 2.0
- Analytic: Personal Genome Project. What could we do with a ten (or a million) full genome (or exome) sequences?
- Synthetic: Cell therapies – See http://www.synberc.org/testbeds.html#cancerkiller for more info
Logistics
- Meeting time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00—11:30 am
- First class Thu 1-Feb-2007.
- Location: Barker Center, Room 316
- No exams
- No prerequisites
- Grading
- 25% Participation
- 25% Personal wiki page (weekly assignments)
- 25% 5-minute presentations
- 25% Contribution to group project
Background Info and previous class projects
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