CS 560 - Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists (4)

Overview of molecular biology including genomics and proteomics. Alignment, phylogenic tree and search algorithms. Survey of existing bioinformatics tools. Coverage of sequence search and alignment algorithms. Application of AI techniques including neural network, heuristics and genetic algorithms for problem solving. Usage of script languages for solving problems in bioinformatics. Visualization of biological and chemical data. Hardware and software aspects of microarray.

Prerequisite(s): CS 420 or consent of instructor.
Component(s): 4 lectures/problem-solving.