1. Southern California Bioinformatics Summer Institute Wendie Johnston, Beverly Krilowicz, Jamil Momand, Sandra Sharp, Nancy Warter- Perez

2. SoCalBSI Mission To identify and educate college students for successful careers in bioinformatics Part of NSF-NIH BBSI Project Grant number EEC-0234129

3. Goals of SoCalBSI 1) Familiarize computer science and molecular life science students with bioinformatics software programs 2) Introduce programming skills that will enable students to independently write programs 3) Explore the social, moral and ethical issues associated with the human genome sequence 4) Offer career counseling and expose to career opportunities 5) Provide research experiences with professional bioinformaticists 6) Foster long-lasting professional relationships

4. Core Bioinformatics  Literature Searching  NCBI Model  Scoring Matrices  Dynamic Programming  Global vs. Local Sequence Alignment  Multiple Sequence Alignment  Molecular Life Science Databases  Protein Modeling  Microarrays  Proteomics Ethics  Privacy  Security  Human Genome Molecular Life Science  Central Dogma  Molecular Basis of Disease  DNA Primary Sequence  Protein Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Structure  Molecular Evolution  Signal Transduction Computer Science  Structured Programming  Data Structures  Algorithms  Complexity Analysis  Software Engineering Statistics  Probability Theory  Hidden Markov Chain  Bayes’ Theory  Expect Value  Rule of Counting

5. Achievement of Program Goals B. Krilowicz Project Evaluation -Special Topics instructors: -J. Faust -D. Chang -S. Damle -Research Seminar Speakers: -J. Papp -S. Shams -B. Wold - Student Recruitment -WebPage Development -Speaker Travel -Budget -Scheduling -Student Housing Coordination of Research Mentors: BioDiscovery Caltech City of Hope HMRI UCI UCLA USC ViaLogy S. Sharp Research Training N. Warter-Perez Didactic Training W. Johnston Professional Development Program Coordinator Ronnie Cheng J. Momand S. Sharp

6. Who are you? 8 Males, 5 Females 8 graduate students and 5 undergraduates 7 from CA, 6 from outside CA Majors in Applied Math, Biochemistry, Biotech., Biology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, E. Engineering, Biomed Eng., Chemistry Average GPA 3.4

7. Open hours Computer Workstations in Open Lab open from 8 am – 8 pm M-F Eating on campus-Yes Campus Escort Service (323) 343-3700 WiFi hot spots in the Student Housing area

8. Course logistics Course Website (SoCalBSI)SoCalBSI Power point presentation In-class Workshop References

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