Bioinformatics

Catalog description

This course will equip students with essential skills for working with the data sets commonly encountered by modern biologists. A portion of the class will focus on teaching the programming languages R and Python, which are extensively used in bioinformatics and computational biology. In addition to covering proper data management and data visualization, we will emphasize the application of machine-learning techniques to biological data. Additionally, specific applications will include constructing alignments, and phylogenetic trees, fitting evolutionary models, modeling proteins, and working with common databases and file types. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Writing, and Math