Introduction to Bioinformatics
BIOT 630 | 3 Credits
Course Desc: An introduction to bioinformatics. Emphasis is on the interpretation of data. Topics include new, sophisticated DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analyses and pattern recognition and DNA computing, as well as more traditional mathematical modeling (using Bayesian probability and basic algorithms, machine learning and neural networks, and Markov models and dynamic programming). Discussion also covers the analysis of tridimensional structures, phylogenic relationships, and genomic and proteomic data.