Bioinformatics

Catalog description

This course will introduce Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering students to bioinformatics and its ever-increasing power in solving various complex problems in medicine and drug development. 1) Students will explore in detail the building blocks of biomolecules and their physicochemical properties to lay the foundation for better understanding the constantly “breathing” biomolecules and their delicate - intramolecular and intermolecular - interactions with their working partners in action. 2) Students will learn how to navigate the human genome as well as its organization and dynamics, determine any given gene’s exact chromosomal location, and explore the gene. 3) Students will learn how to search against a wide array of specialized bioinformatics databases and retrieve their desired information effectively and efficiently. 4) Students will learn various sequence alignment algorithms in use today and practice them in processing of biosequences.