Presentation groups:

Jackie Cordell, Mike Poellmann, Rebecca Yapp

Patrick Mathias, Chas Conway, Dan Xie

Jing Xu, Chenara Johnson, Cheng Ouyang

Yichun Chen, Peggy Qiu, Cecile Cousot

Rong Kong, Rohith Reddy, Nell Keith

Tze Howe Charn, Zachary Hafez, Maria Pineda

Saman Aliari Zonouz

 

Homework 1 (Due Aug 28):

1. Read Gentleman book p183-p187.

2. Read "An introduction to R" (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#The-R-environment) from "1.1 The R environment" to "1.7 Getting help with functions and features".

 

Homework 2 (Due Aug 30): 1. Read "An introduction to R" (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#The-R-environment) Chapters 2 and 3.

2. Gentleman book: 12.1(page189) -12.2.2(page 195)

3. Fun reading (optional): http://cran.r-project.org/doc/html/interface98-paper/paper.html

 

Homework 3 (Due Sept 6):

1. Read introduction to R up to 5.7.2

2. Gentleman book 12.3.3

 

Homework 4 (Due Sept 11):

1. Read the Golub paper and prepare for discussion after the in class presentation

2. Install R and BioConductor

3. Read Gentleman book 13.1-13.3

4. (Team) Execute this program (Chunk 1 to Chunk 10): http://www.bioconductor.org/mogr/chapter-code/dist.R (install all necessary libraries)

5. (Optional) Read Gentleman book 12.4

 

Homework 5 (due Sept 18):

Execute, read and comprehend this program (http://www.bioconductor.org/mogr/chapter-code/AnalClust.R)
 
Find the “attitude” dataset in R. What does the dataset represent? Do a hierarchical clustering to the employees. Display the clustering result with a dendrogram.

 

Homework 6 (due Sept 18):

Read about Signal Transduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_transduction
 
JAK-STAT Singaling pathway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAK-STAT_pathway
http://www.biocarta.com/pathfiles/h_ghPathway.asp
 
Gene regulation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_gene_expression
 
(Optional) Immflamation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation
 
Calvano paper.
 

Homework Due Dec 4