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Mar 14, 2025
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COMSC 331 - Bioinformatics & Lab
Cross-Listed with: BIO 331
Prerequisites: BIO 200 and COMSC 110 or consent of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Biology Core Concentration and Biotechnology Certificate
The course reviews the fundamental concepts of molecular and evolutionary biology, with a focus on the types of questions that lend themselves to computer analysis. In web-based exercises students will become familiar with they content and format of the most commonly used databases and learn to query them with the associated search engines. Some of the basic algorithms used to compare and order sequence data will be presented, along with the programs that are used to evaluate the inferred patterns statistically and to present them graphically. A weekly computer-programming lab will train students to write simple scripts to extract sequence information from databases and to search for specific patterns within these data.
4 credits
Alternate Spring
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