2024-2025 Undergraduate General Catalog


BIOL 361 Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is the application of computer science to biology and medicine but it is also a driver of how questions are generated and answered in modern biology. The magnitude of biological data - from environmental to genomic - is growing exponentially. This course will introduce students to a varied sampling of publicly available biological data and the basic scripting skills to organize, manage, and analyze that data. They will learn about algorithm design for genome and sequence analysis, genetic variation, phylogenetics, structural, and systems biology. Students will conduct independent projects and be introduced to the highly used programming language and statistical environment R and Python.  

Credits

4

Cross Listed Courses

COSC 361

Prerequisite

BIOL 110 or BIOL 120

Offered

Every other Spring

Notes