BIOI 511 - Bioinformatics I

Three hours.
3 Credits

The course introduces principles, concepts, methods, techniques, algorithms, tools, and strategies to transform and process the masses of information from biological experiments focusing particularly on sequence data. It covers topics as: DNA and protein sequence alignment and analysis, sequence analysis software, database searching, database search heuristic algorithms, sequence alignment dynamic programming algorithms, RNA folding, and multiple sequence alignment and analysis.