Below is the information you will need to complete each of the labs you will do in the course. The lab handouts will be provided for you in class--please do not print out additional copies unless you lose the copy given to you.

Lab 1 - February 10
Summary	Using the NCBI and Biology Workbench Sites
Due Date	February 17, 2006 (Part of Assignment 2)
Handout	Lab 1 Handout

Lab 2 - March 9
Summary	Microarray Data Analysis
Due Date	March 17, 2006 (Part of Assignment 5)
Handout	Lab 2 Handout
Files	spospread.txt spo100.txt
Optional Reading	Chu, S., and DeRisi, J., et. al. (1998) “The Transcriptional Program of Sporulation in Budding Yeast.” Science 282: 699-705. [PDF]

Lab 3 - March 16
Summary	Protein Structure and Homology Modeling
Due Date	March 31, 2006 (Part of Assignment 6)
Handout	Lab 3 Handout
Files	protein.fasta

Lab 4 - March 31
Summary	Proteomics
Due Date	April 7, 2006 (Part of Assignment 7)
Handout	Lab 4 Handout

Lab 5 - April 7
Summary	Multiple Sequence Alignment
Due Date	April 21, 2006 (Part of Assignment 8)
Handout	Lab 5 Handout
Files	random_score.py matrix_cluster.py

Lab 6 - April 21
Summary	Making Phylogenetic Trees
Due Date	April 28, 2006 (Part of Assignment 9)
Handout	Lab 6 Handout
Files	ubiquitin.fasta