Semester and Year
Spring 2022
Dept
Computer Science
Course Number
370
Section Number
1
Course Catalog Description
An overview of various applications of computer science in the areas of molecular biology, genomics, and medicine. Topics will include biological sequence alignment, protein-protein interaction networks, and personalized medicine. Additional topics may include, depending on student enrollment and interest, BLAST, genome assembly, gene prediction, phylogeny, BioPerl, machine learning in computational biology, a survey of computational biology databases/tools such as GenBank, Ensembl, and Uniprot, and cancer informatics. Biology students are welcome with introductory computer science experience (CS125/6/7).
Recommended Citation
Law, Brian, "Spring 2022 CS 370 Sect. 1 Topics in Computational Molecular Biology" (2022). Computer Science Syllabi. 139.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/compsci_syllabi/139