CSC 414 Bioinformatics 1

Recent advances in fields such as molecular biology have brought about an enormous mass of data beyond which can be analyzed by traditional or manual methods. Fortunately, we have also seen profound advances in the area of computational power (i.e. processing speed and storage). In this course we will examine computational problems in molecular biology and methods for solving these problems. We will be using various software packages to perform DNA and protein sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree construction, DNA Fragment Assembly. We will explore the database issues related to bioinformatics. We will also develop our own bioinformatics programs and explore the issues relating to the protein folding problem. This course is intended for upper-level undergraduate students in computer science, biology, and chemistry and graduate students in computer information systems.