BIOL 6640 - Fundamentals of Bioinformatics

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Biol 3800 or written approval of instructor.
Description
(Same as CHEM 6640, CSC 6640, and NEUR 6320.) A “hands-on” approach to bioinformatics using PCs, the internet, and computer graphics to analyze, correlate, and extract 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.