Introduction to Bioinformatics

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Fundamental algorithmic and statistical methods in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics will be discussed. Topics include introduction to molecular biology and genetics, DNA sequence analysis, polymorphisms and personal genomics, structural variation analysis, gene mapping and haplotyping algorithms, phylogenetic analysis, biological network analysis, and computational drug discovery. Much of the course will focus on the algorithmic techniques, including but not limited to, dynamic programming, hidden Markov models, string algorithms, graph theories and algorithms, and some representative data mining algorithms. Paper presentations and course projects are also required. Prereq: CSDS 310 or Graduate standing.