He who asks is a fool for five CSEP590A minutes, but he who does not Computational Biology ask remains a fool forever. http://www.cs.washington.edu/csep590a Larry Ruzzo -- Chinese Proverb Summer 2006 UW CSE Computational Biology Group Tonight • Admin Admin Stuff • Why Comp Bio? • The world’s shortest Intro. to Mol. Bio.
Course Mechanics & Grading • Reading • In class discussion Background & Motivation • Homeworks – reading blogs – paper exercises – programming • No exams, but possible oversized last homework in lieu of final Source: http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/genbankstats.html
The Human Genome Project 1 gagcccggcc cgggggacgg gcggcgggat agcgggaccc cggcgcggcg gtgcgcttca 61 gggcgcagcg gcggccgcag accgagcccc gggcgcggca agaggcggcg ggagccggtg 121 gcggctcggc atcatgcgtc gagggcgtct gctggagatc gccctgggat ttaccgtgct 181 tttagcgtcc tacacgagcc atggggcgga cgccaatttg gaggctggga acgtgaagga 241 aaccagagcc agtcgggcca agagaagagg cggtggagga cacgacgcgc ttaaaggacc 301 caatgtctgt ggatcacgtt ataatgctta ctgttgccct ggatggaaaa ccttacctgg 361 cggaaatcag tgtattgtcc ccatttgccg gcattcctgt ggggatggat tttgttcgag 421 gccaaatatg tgcacttgcc catctggtca gatagctcct tcctgtggct ccagatccat 481 acaacactgc aatattcgct gtatgaatgg aggtagctgc agtgacgatc actgtctatg 541 ccagaaagga tacataggga ctcactgtgg acaacctgtt tgtgaaagtg gctgtctcaa 601 tggaggaagg tgtgtggccc caaatcgatg tgcatgcact tacggattta ctggacccca 661 gtgtgaaaga gattacagga caggcccatg ttttactgtg atcagcaacc agatgtgcca 721 gggacaactc agcgggattg tctgcacaaa acagctctgc tgtgccacag tcggccgagc 781 ctggggccac ccctgtgaga tgtgtcctgc ccagcctcac ccctgccgcc gtggcttcat 841 tccaaatatc cgcacgggag cttgtcaaga tgtggatgaa tgccaggcca tccccgggct 901 ctgtcaggga ggaaattgca ttaatactgt tgggtctttt gagtgcaaat gccctgctgg 961 acacaaactt aatgaagtgt cacaaaaatg tgaagatatt gatgaatgca gcaccattcc 1021 ... “High-Throughput Goals BioTech” • Basic biology • Sensors – DNA sequencing • Disease diagnosis/prognosis/treatment – Microarrays/Gene expression • Drug discovery, validation & development – Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics – Protein/protein & DNA/protein interaction • Individualized medicine • Controls • … – Cloning – Gene knock out/knock in – RNAi Floods of data “Grand Challenge” problems
What’s all the fuss? CS Points of Contact & Opportunities • Scientific visualization • The human genome is “finished”… – Gene expression patterns • Even if it were, that’s only the beginning • Databases – Integration of disparate, overlapping data sources • Explosive growth in biological data is – Distributed genome annotation in face of shifting underlying revolutionizing biology & medicine genomic coordinates • AI/NLP/Text Mining – Information extraction from journal texts with inconsistent “All pre-genomic lab nomenclature, indirect interactions, incomplete/inaccurate techniques are obsolete” models,… • Machine learning (and computation and mathematics are crucial to post-genomic analysis) – System level synthesis of cell behavior from low-level heterogeneous data (DNA sequence, gene expression, protein interaction, mass spec,…) • ... • Algorithms An Algorithm Example: ncRNAs “Rigorous Filtering” - Z. Weinberg CENSORED • Convert CM to HMM • The “Central Dogma”: (AKA: stochastic CFG to stochastic regular grammar) DNA -> messenger RNA -> Protein Details • Do it so HMM score always � CM score • Optimize for most aggressive filtering subject to constraint that • Last ~5 years: many examples score bound maintained (but stay tuned…) of functionally important ncRNAs – A large convex optimization problem – 175 -> 350 families just in last 6 mo. • Filter genome sequence with (fast) HMM, run (slow) CM only on Plenty of CS here • Much harder to find than protein-coding genes sequences above desired CM threshold; guaranteed not to miss anything • Main method - Covariance Models (based on stochastic context free grammars) • Newer, more elaborate techniques pulling in key secondary structure features for better searching • Main problem - Sloooow … O(nm 4 ) (uses automata theory, dynamic programming, Dijkstra, more optimization stuff,…)
Results The Mission • Typically 200-fold speedup or more • Finding dozens to hundreds of new ncRNA genes in “Solving Today’s challenging many families Computer Science problems • Has enabled discovery of many new families for Tomorrow’s biologists” • Newer, more elaborate techniques pulling in key secondary structure features for better searching (uses automata theory, dynamic programming, Dijkstra, more optimization stuff,…) Course Focus & Goals • Mainly sequence analysis More Admin • Algorithms for alignment, search, & discovery • specific sequences, general types (“genes”, etc.) • Single sequence and comparative analysis • Techniques: HMMs, EM, MLE, Gibbs, Viterbi…
The Genome • The hereditary info present in every cell A VERY Quick Intro To • DNA molecule -- a long sequence of Molecular Biology nucleotides (A, C, T, G) • Human genome -- about 3 x 10 9 nucleotides • The genome project -- extract & interpret genomic information, apply to genetics of disease, better understand evolution, … The Double Helix DNA • Discovered 1869 • Role as carrier of genetic information - much later • The Double Helix - Watson & Crick 1953 • Complementarity – A �� T C �� G Los Alamos Science
Genetics - the study of Cells heredity • A gene -- classically, an abstract • Chemicals inside a sac - a fatty layer called the plasma membrane heritable attribute existing in variant • Prokaryotes (e.g., bacteria) - little forms ( alleles ) recognizable substructure • Genotype vs phenotype • Eukaryotes (all multicellular organisms, and • Mendel many single celled ones, like yeast) - genetic – Each individual two copies of each gene material in nucleus, other organelles for other specialized functions – Each parent contributes one (randomly) – Independent assortment Chromosomes Mitosis/Meiosis • Most “higher” eukaryotes are diploid - have • 1 pair of (complementary) DNA homologous pairs of chromosomes, one molecules (+ protein wrapper) maternal, other paternal (exception: sex • Most prokaryotes have just 1 chromosomes) chromosome • Mitosis - cell division, duplicate each chromosome, 1 copy to each daughter cell • Eukaryotes - all cells have same • Meiosis - 2 divisions form 4 haploid gametes number of chromosomes, e.g. fruit flies (egg/sperm) 8, humans & bats 46, rhinoceros 84, … – Recombination/crossover -- exchange maternal/paternal segments
Proteins The “Central Dogma” • Chain of amino acids, of 20 kinds • Genes encode proteins • Proteins are the major functional elements in • DNA transcribed into messenger RNA cells • mRNA translated into proteins – Structural – Enzymes (catalyze chemical reactions) • Triplet code (codons) – Receptors (for hormones, other signaling molecules, odorants,…) – Transcription factors – … • 3-D Structure is crucial: the protein folding problem Transcription: DNA � RNA Codons & The Genetic Code Ala : Alanine RNA Second Base Arg : Arginine sense 5’ 3’ U C A G Asn : Asparagine 5 � strand Phe Ser Tyr Cys U Asp : Aspartic acid 3 � Phe Ser Tyr Cys C Cys : Cysteine U � DNA 3’ 5’ Leu Ser Stop Stop A Gln : Glutamine antisense Leu Ser Stop Trp G Glu : Glutamic acid strand Leu Pro His Arg U Gly : Glycine Leu Pro His Arg C His : Histidine C Third Base First Base Leu Pro Gln Arg A Ile : Isoleucine RNA polymerase Leu Pro Gln Arg G Leu : Leucine Ile Thr Asn Ser U Lys : Lysine Ile Thr Asn Ser C Met : Methionine A Ile Thr Lys Arg A Phe : Phenylalanine Met/Start Thr Lys Arg G Pro : Proline Val Ala Asp Gly U Ser : Serine Val Ala Asp Gly C Thr : Threonine G Val Ala Glu Gly A Trp : Tryptophane Val Ala Glu Gly G Tyr : Tyrosine Val : Valine
Translation: mRNA � Protein Ribosomes Watson, Gilman, Witkowski, & Zoller, 1992 Watson, Gilman, Witkowski, & Zoller, 1992 Gene Structure Genome Sizes Base Pairs Genes • Transcribed 5’ to 3’ Mycoplasma genitalium 580,073 483 • Promoter region and transcription factor MimiVirus 1,200,000 1,260 binding sites (usually) precede 5’ E. coli 4,639,221 4,290 • Transcribed region includes 5’ and 3’ Saccharomyces cerevisiae 12,495,682 5,726 untranslated regions Caenorhabditis elegans 95,500,000 19,820 • In eukaryotes, most genes also include introns, spliced out before export from Arabidopsis thaliana 115,409,949 25,498 nucleus, hence before translation Drosophila melanogaster 122,653,977 13,472 Humans 3.3 x 10 9 ~25,000
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