BIOINFORMATICS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate

This course is an introduction to bioinformatics and a practical guide to the analysis of genes and proteins. It will familiarize students with the tools and principles of contemporary bioinformatics. By the end of the course, students will have a working knowledge at the graduate level of a variety of publicly available databases and computational tools important in bioinformatics, and a grasp of the underlying principles that are adequate for them to evaluate and utilize novel techniques as they arise in the future. In addition to participating in all the lectures and activities of the undergraduate course CS 3220/BIO 3220, graduate students are expected to accomplish a graduate project and attend extra guest lectures specially prepared for graduate students (when the graduate enrolment is 3 or more). The graduate project would be related to the student’s research, so the thesis supervisor will be invited to join in the process of choosing and evaluating the graduate project. The graduate project will be worth 30% of the final grade. Cross-level listed with CS 3220, BIO 3220, and VPM 8850 PREREQUISITE: Admission to the graduate program and permission of the instructor HOURS OF CREDIT: 3 N OTE : No student can be awarded more than one course credit among HB 8850, VPM 8850, CS 3220, and BIO 3220