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Course Overview
The biological sciences are undergoing a revolution in how they are practiced. In the last decade, a vast amount of data (DNA sequences, protein sequences, etc.) has become available, and computational methods are playing a fundamental role in transforming this data into scientific understanding.Bioinformatics (computational molecular biology) involves developing and applying computational methods for managing and analyzing information about the sequence, structure and function of biological molecules and systems.
The goals of this course are to provide an understanding of:
- the types and sources of data available for computational biology,
- the fundamental computational problems in molecular biology and genomics,
- a core set of widely used algorithms in computational biology,
- a set of algorithms that have important applications in computational biology, but which have key applications outside of biology as well.
This is the first course in a two-semester sequence. The second course is BMI/CS 776 - Advanced Bioinformatics.
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