CSC 8050 - Statistics for Bioinformatics

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: MATH 4544 or MATH 6544 or BIOL 4744 or BIOL 6744, or its equivalent.
Description
Same as Biol 8050 and Stat 8050. Introduction of computational biology and microarray informatics, gene expression analysis using microarray for transcriptional profiling, use of multivariate statistics and computer algorithms for different clustering techniques, important role of statistical packages, algorithms for calculating statistical quantities and statistical research in this area. Three lecture hours a week.