Advanced Bioinformatics

Catalog description

This course is a continuation of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (BME 340). The course covers advanced topics in modern bioinformatics. Topics include, advanced database searching and sequence alignment, molecular phylogeny and evolution, analysis of next-generation sequence data, microarray, data analysis, protein analysis and proteomics, and personalized medicine and drug design. The course includes computer labs as part of the lectures that cover computational tools used to analyze genomic and proteomic data. Prerequisites: BME 340. Fall Semester.