BIOL 213 Computational Biology

This course provides a broad overview of bioinformatics and computational biology. The course’s goal is to address biological questions using computational approaches and the analysis of data. This course emphasizes direct, hands-on experience with applications to current biological research problems. The research problems include DNA sequence alignment, genomic data manipulation and search, molecular phylogenetics and evolution, protein sequence alignment and structure prediction, and algorithms.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

BIOL 101 or BIOL 120 and 4 credits of chemistry

Hours Weekly

2 hours lecture, 2 hours recitation weekly