Course Information

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that applies computer science and mathematics skills to analyze and interpret biological data. This course introduces fundamental concepts in bioinformatics, emphasizing how to use biological databases and computational tools to solve common bioinformatics problems in biology and biomedicine. The topics include sequence database access and searching, sequence alignment and phylogeny, functional prediction of DNA and protein sequences, and genome sequencing and annotation. Students will learn fundamental concepts in bioinformatics and gain extensive experience with the use of bioinformatics analysis tools.