BIOL 123A - Bioinformatics I

3 units
Introduction to algorithms, tools, and databases of Bioinformatics. Biological foundations: central dogma; sequence databases; pairwise alignment algorithms and tools; Blast; phylogenetics. Possible additional topics: protein structure, multiple sequence alignment, next-gen sequencing, epigenetics, CRISPR. Project applying these approaches to real-world problems.

Prerequisite(s): CS 46B or BIOL 31, or instructor consent; Allowed Majors: Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Biology, Chemistry or MS Bioinformatics.
Grading: Letter Graded

Cross-listed with CS 123A / SE 123A. Computer Science is responsible for scheduling.

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