Computational Structural Biology for Computer Science

Catalog description

This course provides a fundamental background in computational structural biology and bioinformatics, algorithms and tools widely used in the field, and assists students in starting research in the field of computational structural biology. The course will cover topics regarding protein structures, functions, physical principles describing molecular structures of proteins and their dynamics, algorithms used in protein/DNA sequence analysis, and computational geometry algorithms useful for computational structural biology studies tailored for computer science students.