| Course ID: | BINF(PBIO) 4550/6550. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Concepts in Bioinformatics and Omics |
Course
Description: | Designed for students to learn how modern problems in medicine,
agriculture, and biology are solved using big data “omics.”
Topics include comparative gene and genome sequence analyses,
transcriptomics, metabolomics, phylogenomics, and application of
these approaches in medical, agricultural, and environmental
sciences. No prior computational experience required. |
| Oasis Title: | Bioinformatics and Omics |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course is designed for students who wish to learn how
computational technologies solve molecular genetic and genomics
problems. This course offers a “peek inside the black box” for
several commonly used algorithms. Students should learn basic
algorithms and programming concepts that underlie the fast-paced
fields of genomics and bioinformatics. Upon completion of the
course, students will be able to understand what current
research in bioinformatics is trying to accomplish and will be
able to read with comprehension some of the research literature
of the area. No prior computing experience is expected. |
| Topical Outline: | • Molecular Biology
• Information Organization and Sequence Databases
• Molecular Evolution
• Substitution Matrices
• Pairwise Sequence Alignment
• BLAST and Multiple Sequence Alignment
• Protein Structure Prediction
• Phylogenetics
• Genome Assembly and Annotation
• Environmental Genomics
• Transcript and Protein Expression Analysis
• Metabolomics
• Basic Probability
• Advanced Probability for Bioinformatics Applications
• Programming Basics and Applications to Bioinformatics
• Developing a Bioinformatics Tool |
| Honor Code Reference: | All academic work must meet the standards contained in "A Culture of Honesty."
Each student is responsible to inform themselves about those standards before
performing any academic work. |