Topics include an overview of various aspects of bioinformatics and simultaneously introduce students to programming in Python. The assessments in the course represent various programming challenges and include solving diverse biological problems using popular bioinformatics tools. This will be a fully-online class based on extensive educational materials and online educational platform Stepik developed with HHMI, NIH, and ILTI support.
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC San Diego, CSE
Course Credit:
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UC Berkeley: Pending
UC Davis: Pending
UC Irvine: Pending
UC Los Angeles: Pending
UC Merced: Pending
UC Riverside: Pending
UC San Diego: Pending
UC San Francisco: Pending
UC Santa Barbara: Pending
UC Santa Cruz: Pending
Prerequisites
BILD 1 The Cell or BILD 4 Introductory Biology Lab or CSE 3 Fluency/Information Technology or CSE 7 Intro/Programming with MATLAB or CSE 8A Intro to Programming 1 or CSE 8B Intro to Programming 2 or CSE 11 Accel. Intro to Programming
Course Creators
Pavel Pevzner
Dr. Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology at University of California, San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. (1988) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. He is the author of the graduate textbook Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach, 2000 and the undergraduate textbook (with Neil Jones) Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms, 2004. He was named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in 2006. Dr. Pevzner is the director of the Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics Program at UCSD.Dr. Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology at University of California, San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. (1988) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. He is the author of the graduate textbook Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach , 2000 and the undergraduate ...
Dr. Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Algorithmic and Systems Biology at University of California, San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. (1988) from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. He is the author of the graduate textbook Computational Molecular Biology: An Algorithmic Approach, 2000 and the undergraduate textbook (with Neil Jones) Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms, 2004. He was named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in 2006. Dr. Pevzner is the director of the Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics Program at UCSD.
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