Introduction to Bioinformatic

Catalog description

This course will teach how computational techniques can help with solving biological problems. Students will learn to efficiently use multiple genomics and bioinformatics tools, that are freely available, for the analysis of DNA, RNA and protein sequences and structure. This interdisciplinary course would be helpful for students in the department of Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics who aspire to go to either graduate school or medical school, or plan to work in the Bioinformatics industry that has experienced exponential growth within the last decade.