Advanced Bioinformatics
BIFS 617 | 3 Credits
Course Desc: An over-view of basic programming concepts for performing bioinformatics analyses of biological data. Topics include software development life cycle, data types and data representation, arithmetic and logical operations, conditional execution, iteration, functions, and arrays. An overview of basic data structures is also covered. Emphasis is on bioinformatics pipeline development, automation of data analysis, and building of bioinformatics applications using a high-level programming language.