COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS

Catalog description

Introduction to the current computational methods for whole genome sequence analysis. Emphasis is on large-scale sequence data analysis in a high-performance UNIX/Linux computing environment. Topics include, genome structure and organization, whole genome assembly and annotation, comparative genomics, transcriptome assembly and gene expression analysis, genome arithmetic, DNA polymorphism detection, and small RNA Biology and analysis. Pre-requisite: MATH-170 and CS-250 , with a grade of C or better.