Computational Molecular Biology

Catalog description

Provides an up-to-date presentation of problems and algorithms in bioinformatics, beginning with an introduction to biochemistry and molecular genetics. Topics include: proteins and nucleic acids, the genetic code, the central dogma, the genome, gene expression, metabolic transformations, and experimental methods (gel electrophoresis, X-ray crystallography, NMR). Also, algorithms for DNA sequence alignment, database search tools (BLAST), and DNA sequencing.