CS 5160 - Problem Solving with Bioinformatics Tools

• Students will become familiar with the capabilities of popular bioinformatics tools, and with the kind of information contained in popular biological databases.
• Students will develop the ability to employ state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools to collaboratively solve a set of biological research problems.
• Students will develop the ability to use bioinformatics to analyze data from an expression profiling (microarray) experiment.
• Students will develop the ability to use bioinformatics to determine the phylogenetic relationships among a set of species, given DNA sequence data from each species.
• Students will develop the ability to use bioinformatics to determine the structure and function of a gene and the proteins that it encodes, given the DNA sequence of the gene.
• Students will develop the ability to use bioinformatics tools to perform searches for regulatory motifs, which control gene expression.
• Students will gain a detailed understanding of the course concepts is acquired by solving problems with a team.
• Students will gain insight into how bioinformatics tools and biological databases are used in multidisciplinary biological research and experimentation processes.
• Students will gain introductory knowledge about bioinformatics as a discipline and the genomic age. This includes the following specific topics: genome sequencing, genome annotation, types of genomic elements, sequenced genomes, etc.