BIOL 453 Bioinformatics

An introduction to the fundamental concepts and methods in bioinformatics, a rapidly growing field that applies tools in computer science to the understanding of complex data sets in molecular biology. Topics include basic coding skills, computational sequence analysis, sequence, gene calling, genome annotation, and proteomics. No previous coding skills required.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

BIOL 191, BIOL 192, BIOL 293 and one of the following 300-level courses: BIOL 306, BIOL 312, BIOL 314, or BIOL 325