Computing for Bioinformatics

Catalog description

This course focuses on computational techniques used in bioinformatics. Topics will include nucleotide and amino acid data representation, sequence alignment, coding sequence prediction, and use of statistical models. Students will learn to use bioinformatics libraries with a script language such as Python or Perl. May be taught concurrently with CSC 687. Cannot receive credit for both CSC 587 and CSC 687. Prerequisite: any one of CSC 121 , CSC 125 , CSC 131 , CSC 232 , BMS 231 , BIO 235 , or CHM 350.