Genomics Bioinformatics

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course is an introduction to genomics and the use of computers to analyze genomic data. Genomics is the study of the structure, content and evolution of genomes, including functional analysis of genes and proteins. Students learn applications of genomics to biomedical and biological research by performing computational exercises using genomic databases. Topics include genome sequencing and annotation, gene and regulatory motif prediction, genetic variation, sequence database searching, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree construction, protein structure prediction, microarray analysis, proteomic analysis, interaction networks. This course applies towards the concentration in Ecology, Evolution and Behavioral Biology as well as the concentration in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology for Biology majors.