Translational Bioinformatics

Catalog description

This course covers the fundamentals of bioinformatics and how they apply to translational and clinical problems. The purpose of this course is to give students a broad overview of the field of bioinformatics, and the tools commonly used, as well as the applications to practical biomedical issues, diseases, population health, drug discovery, etc. The students will also be exposed to a variety of open-source software for sequence alignment, SNPs discovery, and on how to access and analyze data from large biological databases, for translational and clinical research.