Faculty of Arts and Science
Biochemistry 5400/Neuroscience 5400
Essential Bioinformatics
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Introduction to the analysis and interpretation of omics data. Introduction to biological databases and simple programming languages that will enable students to conduct basic analysis of genomes, transcriptomes, epigenomes, and proteomes.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics
Corequisite(s):Biochemistry 5410/Neuroscience 5410
Biochemistry 5410/Neuroscience 5410
Practical Bioinformatics
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Practical exercises and lectures on basic digital literacy. Extensive practice in Unix systems and basic programming languages with an emphasis on those relevant for omics related applications such as R and Perl. Interactive tasks to help students acquire a basic understanding of the principles of generation and analysis of genetic information.
Prerequisite(s):Admission to the Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics
Corequisite(s):Biochemistry 5400/Neuroscience 5400
Biochemistry 5420/Neuroscience 5420
Advanced Bioinformatics
Credit hours: 3.00
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
Next-generation sequence analysis of biomolecules, and analysis and interpretation of omics data. Computational biomarker and drug discovery, various aspects of personalized medicine, biobanks, and ethics related to bioinformatics. Designing and implementing a bioinformatics analysis project, and the communication and project management skills associated with this.
Prerequisite(s):Biochemistry 5400/Neuroscience 5400