Notes

During the quarter students or pairs of students will be asked to give presentations in each of the informatics sessions that generally occur on the Wednesday of each week. The total length of the presentation should be about 30 minutes for each student, even if two students are presenting (so two students will take 60 minutes).

The presentations should be in the form of a journal club reporting on assigned informatics reading associated with a biological topic presented in the Monday session. The assigned reading will generally describe current informatics research related to the topic. Presentations should also describe work related to the assigned readings.

Presentations should summarize the key information representation and management issues that arise out of the biological topic presented on the Monday session, describe how the work described in the readings deals with these issues, and discuss unsolved problems. If working computational systems are associated with the associated readings, then it may be appropriate to present these as well. The presentation should end with questions and topics for discussion by the class as a whole.

Following the overview on the first day of class students should list their top three choices for presentation topics. This list should be emailed to the instructor by the Monday class of the second week. I will then assign you to a specific topic based on your choices and the available class sessions.

Currrent schedule