Technologies in Bioinformatics

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the high-throughput technologies used to collect data for bioinformatics research in various fields including genomics, proteomics, clinical informatics, imaging, and metagenomics. This class surveys the conceptual models and tools used to analyze and interpret data collected by high-throughput technologies, and the latest applications of bioinformatics in the current state of science. This course will focus on genotyping, DNA/RNA sequencing, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, phosphoproteomics, electronic health records, metagenomics and immunology. The knowledge structures that we will cover include biomedical ontologies and databases, bioinformatics tools, essential algorithms in bioinformatics and networks. There will be in class exercises and assignments covering tools for genome/proteome exploration and analysis. This is an active learning course that will provide a hands-on learning experience for the students. Offered as SYBB 311 and SYBB 411 . Prereq: BIOL 214 and BIOL 215 or Graduate standing.