Interdisciplinary Tools in the Biosciences. 3 credits

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Class provides experiential learning of the basic tools necessary for a scientist career development. The tools covered in this class enable conducting biosciences research, namely, identifying unmet needs in science, performing scientific and patent literature search, designing experiments, understanding and applying state of the art –omics technology, performing statistical analysis of data and mathematical modeling, interpreting study results, recognizing and eliminating sources of bias, building knowledge from data, and communicating results of scientific research to peers and to general public. Students will be guided on how to recognize emerging trends in science, and be given the tools to creatively explore these trends, so that their own research will be timely and competitive. Offered by School of Systems Biology . May not be repeated for credit.