CSC 462 - INTRODUCTION TO BIOINFORMATICS

3 Credit Hour(s)
Introduces principles, concepts, methods, techniques, algorithms, tools, and strategies to transform and process the masses of information from biological experiments, focusing particularly on biological sequence data. Covers topics such as pairwise sequence alignment, gene detection, protein structure predictions, analysis of Microarray gene expression data, gene mapping, comparative genomics, genome evolution and visualization. Three hours of lecture.

Prerequisite(s): CSC 345 or consent of the Department