Course Description
Biology Meets Computing, CSE 180
Topics include an overview of various aspects of bioinformatics and will 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.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC San Diego, CSE
Course Credit:
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UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
Unit Credit
UC Irvine:
General Education: II - Science and Technology
UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective Units
UC San Diego:
Unit Credit
UC San Francisco:
Pending
UC Santa Barbara:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Prerequisites
BILD 1 The Cell
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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