This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Recitations

Weekly recitations are held during the first eight weeks of the course. Notes are available for selected recitations below.

These notes are courtesy of the course TAs, Pouya Kheradpour and Matt Rasmussen, and are used with permission.

SES # TOPICS
R1 Probability, statistics, biology (PDF)
R2 Affine gaps alignment, hashing with combs
R3 Microarrays (PDF)
R4 Posterior decoding review, Baum-Welch learning
R5 Entropy, information, background models (PDF)
R6 Gene trees, species trees, reconciliation (PDF)
R7 Population genomics
R8 Brainstorming for final projects