BMI 550 Bioinformatics & Computational Biomedicine I: Algorithms

Credits: 4
The course will be a problem-driven examination of the algorithmic and quantitative issues in computational biology. The course assumes basic background in algorithms. The emphasis is on algorithm development and application to biological problems, particularly those from multi-omics studies. This will enable the student to evaluate algorithms, as well as assess computational considerations for development and implementation. Topics include: global and local alignment, Scoring functions, suffix trees, Next Generation Sequencing Algorithms, Genome Alignment, Database search, Phylogeny, Multiple sequence alignment, motif finding, and genome rearrangements.

Graded: A-F
May be taken only once for credit
Also offered as: BMI 650