CS 6613 Bioinformatics
Spring 2020
Class meeting time: MW 2:30pm-3:45pm room: CSM 211
Office hours time: MW 1:30pm-2:30pm or by appointment
Course description
Credit 3.
This course in Bioinformatics is focused on topics applying the algorithms and approaches developed in computer science, mathematics and statistics to solve problems formulated from challenges in life sciences, especially in molecular biology, which involves DNA, RNA, protein sequences and structures, and biological systems.
Every student who is interested in bioinformatics/computational biology is encouraged to take the course.
Textbook
- N. C. Jones, P. A. Pevzner, An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 2004.
Other referencs
- Mount D.W. (2001) Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
- Pevzner P.A. (2002) Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach. The MIT Press.
- Cormen T.H., Leiserson C.E., Rivest R.L., and Stein C. (2001) Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition. The MIT Press.
- Lodish H., Berk A., Zipursky S.L., Matsudaira P., Baltimore D., and Darnell J. (2000) Molecular Cell Biology, Fourth Edition. W.H. Freeman.
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