NEUR 6320 - Fundamentals of Bioinformatics

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Description
Crosslisted with BIOL 6640, CHEM 6640, and CSC 6640. A “hands-on” approach to bioinformatics to analyze information from biological databases, emphasizing sequence and structure databases for proteins and nucleic acids, and introducing the computing skills necessary for bioinformatics. Topics include: sequences and three-dimensional structures of proteins and nucleic acids, the major databases, algorithms for sequence comparison, data mining, and prediction of structure and function. Four lecture hours per week.