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:

Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.

If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.

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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