BIO 5583 - Bioconcepts in Bioinformatics

3 Semester Hour(s)

The course will introduce the students to the field of genomics, how genome sequence data is obtained and analyzed, what can be learned from an individual’s genome, and how Data Mining of the genome can uncover the basis of disease susceptibility and treatment of many human diseases. The course will introduce students to a variety of NCBI- and web-based computational tools for solving common problems in biological research and address cutting-edge research in epigenetics, pharmacogenomics, genetic testing, genome editing, and microbiome. The course will also introduce students to some aspects of “beyond the human species” genomics, in particular plant genomics and the genomics of the microbiome.

Prerequisite(s): Molecular Biology