Foundations in Bioinformatics

3 cr · Graduate

This course is intended to familiarize students with the field of bioinformatics. A broad overview of the ‘omic fields, such as genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics and common technologies, such as next generation sequencing, mass spectrometry, and NMR will be provided. Additionally, there will be discussion of the computational challenges of algorithm development, automation, and statistical analysis, particularly as it applies to the data consumer and an introduction to the Python programming language.