| Date | Speaker | Topic | 
| 19.9. | Heikki Mannila, Sami Kaski | Opening lecture, general information. | 
| 26.9. |  | The topics and the rest of the timetable will be
	    fixed. Homework: read Ch. 1-2 of Setubal & Meidanis (S&M)
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|  | Teemu Karevaara | Sequence comparison. S&M: Ch. 3.1-3.4. | 
|  | Ville Viitaniemi | Database search + other issues. S&M: Ch. 3.5-3.6. | 
| 3.10. |  | SSK, Ch.4 + DEKM, Ch.3, myös BB, Ch.7-8: An introduction to hidden
          Markov models for biological sequences (1 presentation: an overview of the methods + exercise)       (20p.+34p.+58p.)
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|  |  | DEKM, Ch.4: Pairwise alignment using HMMs       (20p.) | 
| 10.10. |  | DEKM, Ch.5: Profile HMMs for sequence families  (34p.)
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|  |  | DEKM, Ch.6: Multiple sequence alignment methods (26p) | 
| 17.10. |  | SM, Ch.4: Fragment assembly of DNA    (38p.)
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|  |  | SM, Ch.5: Physical mapping of DNA     (32p.) | 
| 24.10. |  | SM, Ch.6: Phylogenetic trees (also DEKM: Ch.7)  (40p.+32p.)
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|  |  | DEKM, Ch.8: Probabilistic approaches to phylogeny, myös BB, Ch.10 (41p.+12p.)
("comparison of probabilistic and non-probabilistic methods": exercise) | 
| 31.10. |  | SM, Ch.7: Genome rearrangements                 (30p.)
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|  |  | SM, Ch.8: Molecular structure prediction        (16p.) | 
| 7.11. |  | DEKM, Ch.9: (Stochastic) transformational grammars, myös BB, Ch.11 (27p.+22p.)
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|  |  | DEKM, Ch.10: (Probabilistic) RNA structure analysis      (39p.) | 
| 14.11. |  | SSK, Ch.11: Statistical analysis of protein structures
     (20p.)
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|  |  | SSK, Ch.12: Analysis and algorithms for protein sequence-structure
alignment (For 2 people together!) (58p.) | 
| 21.11. |  | SSK, Ch.13: THREADER: protein sequence threading by double dynamic
programming (28p.)
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|  |  | SSK, Ch.14: From computer vision to protein structure and association   (22p.) | 
|  |  | SSK, Ch.15: Modeling biological data and structure with probabilistic
networks    (20p) | 
| 28.11. |  | SSK, Ch.5: Case-based reasoning driven gene annotation  (22p.)
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|  |  | SSK, Ch.7: Computational gene prediction using neural networks and
similarity search        (20p.) | 
|  |  | SSK, Ch.10: Decision trees and Markov chains for gene finding   (20p.) | 
| 5.12. (time may change!) | Invited speakers | Symposium on bioinformatics
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12.12. |  | Microarrays
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