MIT CompBio Lecture 01 - Introduction (Fall’19)

Full playlist with all videos in order is here: All slides from Fall 2019 are here: Course website for latest materials is here: Overview for this lecture: 1. Course overview: - Staff, students, responses to student survey - Foundations, frontiers, textbook, homework, quiz - Final project: teams, mentorship, challenge, relevance, originality, achievement, presentation 2. Why Computational Biology; - What makes our field unique 3. Overview of the main modules - Genomes, Expression, Epigenomics, Networks, Genetics, Evolution, Frontiers 4. Biology primer (in the context of this course) - Central Dogma of Molecular Biology - DNA, Epigenomics, RNA, Protein, Networks - Human genetics, evolution