Introduction to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary filed combing data science, computing, algorithms, and programming with biology. This course teaches the fundamental algorithms that form the backbone of modern bioinformatics as well as their implementations and applications to data. Topics covered include genome assembly, sequence alignment, phylogenetic trees, gene regulation, and large-scale genomics data as well as associated computational methods including graph algorithms, dynamic programming, combinatorial pattern matching, tree algorithms, and machine learning.