HBIO 350 - Principles of Bioinformatics

Credit Hours: 3

Course covers most areas of bioinformatics used in understanding modern biological data, including pair-wise sequence alignments, multiple sequence alignments, basic concepts in probability and statistics as applied to bioinformatics, phylogenetic trees based on sequence alignments, basic genomics and gene finding, protein structure classification and comparison, and an introduction to microarray analysis. It provides a firm foundation in the use of the computer programs and databases central to the analysis of biological data using approaches based on the use of bioinformatics.

Prerequisites: BIO 111 or 113 with a grade of C or better or consent of the Bioinformatics Program director.