MCB128: AI in Molecular Biology (Spring 2026)

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__block 0: 26-30 Jan: A single neuron; [b0 Homework]; [b0 Lecture notes]; [[b0 Lecture slides]]; [[b0 Answers]]
__b0-w1: 26,28,30 Jan: A single neuron / RNA functional classification; [[b0-w1 Section slides]]

__block 1: 02-13 Feb: Feed Forward Networks; [b1 Lecture notes]; [[b1 Lecture slides]]; [[b1 Homework]]; [[b1 Answers]]
__b1-w1: 02,04,06 Feb: Multilayer perceptron / Protein 2D structure; [[b1-w1 Section slides]]
__b1-w2: 09,11,13 Feb: Fundamentals of neural network training; [[b1-w2 Section slides]]

__block 2: 18-27 Feb: CNNs/RNNs and DNA/RNA binding motifs; [b2 Lecture notes]; [[b2 Lecture slides]]; [[b2 Homework]]; [[b2 Answers]]
__b2-w1: 18,20 Feb: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs); [[b2-w1 Section slides]]
__b2-w2: 23,25,27 Feb: Residual networks (RN) and Recurrent neural netowrks (RNNs); [[b2-w2 Section slides]]

__block 3: 02-13 Mar: Attention/Transformers; [[b3 Lecture notes]]; [[b3 Lecture slides]]; [[b3 Homework]]; [[b3 Answers]]
__b3-w1: 02,06 Mar: Attention/Transformers; [[b3-w1 Section slides]]
__b3-w2: 09,11,13 Mar: Protein folding/AlphaFold2; [[b3-w2 Section slides]]

__block 4: 23-03 Mar-Apr: Large language models (LLMs); [[b4 Lecture notes]]; [[b4 Lecture slides]]; [[b4 Homework]]; [[b4 Answers]]
__b4-w1: 23,25,27 Mar: LLMs; [[b4-w1 Section slides]]
__b4-w2: 30,01,03 Mar-Apr: LLMs for DNA, RNA, Protein, genomes; [[b4-w2 Section slides]]

__block 5: 06-17 Apr: AutoEncoders, Variational AutoEncoders; [[b5 Lecture notes]]; [[b5 Lecture slides]]; [[b5 Homework]]; [[b5 Answers]]
__B5-w1: 06,08,10 Apr: AutoEncoders/ scRNA-seq; [[b5-w1 Section slides]]
__b5-w2: 13,15,17 Apr: Variational AutoEncoders / cryoEM; [[b5-w2 Section slides]]

__block 6: 20-29 Apr: Generative neural networks; [[b6 Lecture notes]]; [[b6 Lecture slides]]; [[b6 Homework]]; [[b6 Answers]]
__b6-w1: 20,22,24 Apr: Diffusion models / Protein design; [[b6-w1 Section slides]]
__b6-w2: 27,29 Apr: Graph neural networks / Antibiotic discovery; [[b6-w2 Section slides]]