Mar 29, 2024  
ARCHIVED 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
ARCHIVED 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BIO 242 - Introduction to Bioinformatics

3.00 credit hours
(Same as: CSC 242 .) Introduction to the field of bioinformatics. Computational methods for study of biological sequence data in comparative biology and evolution. Analysis of genome content and organization. Techniques for searching sequence databases, pairwise and multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic methods and methods for pattern recognition and functional inference from sequence data. Database theory, information extraction, algorithm analysis and data mining are utilized.

Prerequisite(s): CSC 160 ; BIO 100  or BIO 151 ; BIO 152  recommended.
Core: Science.


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