Course Description
BIOL 5485, FALL 2006
Introductory Bioinformatics
When: MWF,
10:40 am - 11:30 am
Where: MF,
Sept 6 (1 st class) and Dec 13 (Exam 2), 257 BioSci, St. Paul Campus
W except Sept 6 and Dec 13, 406 BioSci (Computer Lab), St. Paul Campus
Instructor: Fumiaki Katagiri
326
Cargill Bldg.
612-624-5195
katagiri@umn.edu
Office hours by appointment
Overview
PURPOSE: This course will introduce students to computational tools and concepts
for molecular-oriented biology and genomics, through lecture and hands-on experience
in computer lab.
TOPICS: include Boolean logic, sequence alignment, dynamic programming and
heuristics, Bayesian approaches, phylogenetic analysis, motif search, protein
structure analysis, genomics and other OMICS, statistics and multivariate analysis,
microarray data analysis, databases.
OUTCOMES: At the completion of this course, students will have acquired practical
knowledge about a broad range of bioinformatic topics, including basic operation
of some of the tools for the topics, principles behind the tools, and advantages
and disadvantages of the tools. This course is intended for biology-related
graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
Additional comments
The idea of this course is to cover broad areas of bioinformatics. Consequently,
we will not have time to study particular areas in depth. This is not
a programming course . We will rather focus on understanding
how various analytical methods work , so that the students will be
able to properly interpret the results of analyses. In this course, we
will use computational tools that are freely available in
general or to the U. students. In this way, students can easily practice
using the tools even outside the computer lab.
Prerequisites
BIOL 4003 or equivalent (concurrent OK)
Website
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/class/fall2006/biol/5485/
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