BIOL 4500K: Bioinformatics I

4 Credit Hours

Prerequisite: A grade of “B” or better in BIOL 3300, and (MATH 1190 or MATH 1179)
Concurrent: BIOL 3410
Students use the fundamental concepts of biological sequence analysis, including information flow in biological systems and use of sequence and structure databases in research and drug discovery, which are the underpinnings of the genomic revolution. Students will: assemble sequencing reads into contigs; find and annotate protein coding genes; search biological databases; perform sequence alignments; analyze the phylogenetic relationships between sequences; assess the statistical significance of assembly, search and alignment results; and predict protein structure.