Statistical
Applications in Biology and Genetics
Lecture’s
PowerPoint
presentation (pdf
614KB)
(Supplementary
reading and interesting websites)
Related
to presentation: March 12th, 2004 by Tian Zheng (G6102 substitute
lecture)
Note: This is
far from a complete reference list. Websites, books and articles listed here
are to give you a flavor of what is going on at the interface of statistics and
biology/genetics. I hope you find them informative and interesting. Please feel
free to talk to me or email
me if you are interested in research projects in these areas and would like to
know more.
1. Genetic Background
Genomics
Primer: Genomics
and Its Impact on Medicine and Society: A Primer
(Other
versions of introduction to genetic basics: http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/publicat/primer/intro.html)
Biology and
Genetics Graphics Gallery (with explanation on some basic concepts)
2. Computational Biology
Whitehead
Institute, MIT (Whitehead is
a leading research institute in most areas of computational biology and
genomics.)
Book:
Biological Sequence Analysis by R. Durbin, S. Eddy, A, Krogh and G. Mitchison.
Homepage of Professor Jun Liu at
Available
courses at
Stanford Genome Resources (including
Stanford Human Genome Center)
3. Gene Expression Analysis
How Chips Work
(Snapshots, NIH)
Computational Biology Group in
the department of Computer Science,
Homepage
of Professor Mike West,
Whitehead
Institute, MIT (You can
download published Microarray data there.)
Stanford Genome Resources (including
Stanford Human Genome Center)
The
Brown Lab at
NHGRI Microarray Resources
(National Human Genome
Research Institute, NIH)
Homepage of Professor Robert Tibshirani
4. Genetic Epidemiology
Lab
of Statistical Genetics,
Homepage
of Hongyu Zhao,
American Society of
Human Genetics
International Genetic
Epidemiology Society
Last modified: 8/4/2004 3:01 PM