Time: Monday, June 14, 9:00 am - noon
Place: Bioinformatics Computer Core Lab (Rm 104), Life Sciences Bldg
Organizer: Jeff Elhai
Audience: Primarily 1st year students

Goals of session

• Understand the underlying biological concepts of the story motivating this research simulation, especially the concept of orthologs.
• Understand the basis of Markov models and their use.

Resources of session (click on links to reach resources)

• Notes: Markov Models and Set Distinction - Introduction
• Program: Hamlet.pl - Constructs Markov model from given text and spins out pseudo text based on the model
• Data: HamletSpeech.txt - data for Hamlet.pl
• Data: Carols.txt - data for Hamlet.pl
• Data: IRS-1040.doc - data for Hamlet.pl (IRS instructions)
• Data: Candide.txt - data for Hamlet.pl (1st two chapters, in French)
• Data: German.txt - data for Hamlet.pl (random spam)
• Program: Display_hash.pl - program to display the model created by Hamlet.pl
• Link: BioLingua Help Page and portal to BioLingua - Will be used in class to illustrate building sets of orthologs

Before coming to the session

• Please look through the Scenario (particularly the various results)
• Please read the notes given above
  
• Please play with Hamlet.pl and Display_hash.pl given above
• Please complete the short questionnaire (earlier the better but at least two hours before the session)

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