1. (9/26, 9/28) Course overview, introduction to biology, biological databases, and bioinformatics
2. (10/3, 10/5, 10/10) Sequence alignment (dynamic programming)
3. (10/12, 10/17, 10/19, 10/24, 10/26) Evolution of sequences
4. (10/31, 11/2) Database sequence search, Alignment statistics,  Multiple alignment  
5. (11/7, 11/9)  Multiple alignment, Hidden Markov Models
6. (11/14, 11/16)  Hidden Markov Models, Motif finding, EM
7. (11/21, 11/23)   EM, Gibbs sampling, Phylogenetic tree
8. (11/28, 11/30)   Phylogenetic tree,  Course summary