Molecular Sequence Analysis

4 credits

This course covers the analysis of nucleic acid and protein sequences, with an emphasis on the application of algorithms to biological problems. Topics include sequence alignments, database searching, comparative genomics, and phylogenetic and clustering analyses. Pairwise alignment, multiple alignment, DNS sequencing, scoring functions, fast database search, comparative genomics, clustering, phylogenetic trees, gene finding/DNA statistics. Prerequisites: CSE 100 or CSE 100R and CSE 101 and BIMM 100 or CHEM 114C; restricted to BE28, BI34, CH37, and CS27 majors. Students may receive credit for one of the following: CSE 181, BIMM 181, BENG 181, or CSE 181R.