BIOL 419 - Introduction to Molecular Bioinformatics

Credits: (3)

Instructional Method: Three hours lecture.
Prerequisites: A grade of “C” or better in either STAT 219 or STAT 200 and a grade of “C” or better in either BIOL 131, BIOL 132, BIOL 231, BIOL 232 and CHEM 112; or BIOL 471/CHEM 471 and BIOL 472/CHEM 472; or permission of instructor.
Provides a broad introduction to the area of bioinformatics. Topics include: molecular biology background, protein structure and function, sequence alignment algorithms, protein structure prediction, structure-structure alignment, public sequence/structure databases and search tools, introductory phylogenetic analysis, and introduction to systems biology.