BIOI 531 - Bioinformatics Programming

3 hours.
3 Credits

The course introduces programming languages Python, Object-oriented Python, and BioPython and presents how to program in bioinformatics. It covers topics such as basic programming, control structures, functions, files and directories, lists, dictionaries, and basic object-oriented programming in Python, using classes and utility programs for analyzing and interpreting biological structures and data. The BioPython introduces parsing or reading sequences, alignments, sequence search tools, accessing NCBI’s Entrez databases, phylogenetic trees, motif analysis, and parsing KEGG records.

Prerequisite(s) Advisor permission
Offered (FALL or SPRING)