CSC 4650 - Introduction to Bioinformatics

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: CSC 2720, BIOL 1103K, [or BIOL 1103 and BIOL 1103L] and CHEM 1211K [or CHEM 1211 and CHEM 1211L] with grades of “C” or higher. Students must meet the Computer Science Major Eligibility Requirement in order to enroll in this course.
Description
The explosion in biological knowledge due to various genome projects and other high-throughput techniques has created entirely new fields and industries, and a need for trained computational biologists who are familiar with Biology, Statistics, and Computer Science. This course will introduce principles underlying current techniques in the analysis of different kinds of biological data. Topics include: sequence alignment, database searching, microarrays, structure analysis, and phylogenetic tree algorithms.