Bioinformatics

Catalog description

Introduction to the use of computers in biology. Students learn about important scientific questions and the contemporary tools used to answer them. Topics include genome sequence assembly and annotation, database mining, genome organization, phylogenetics and genetics of human disease. Students who register for BIO 420 must also register for a BIO 420 laboratory. For example, if you register for BIO 420 you must, at the same time, register for a section of BIO 420L .