Fall 2005 Course Descriptions
COMP 150-BIO Special Topics: Computational Biology
This course introduces the key computational challenges in molecular biology and explores the algorithms and programming paradigms behind their solutions. Topics include sequence alignment and comparison, genomic annotation, microarray data analysis, and proteomics. Underlying computational techniques such as dynamic programming, hidden Markov models, statistical analyses, and search and optimization procedures will be highlighted.
Prerequisite: Comfort and familiarity with programming in some computer language.