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CSci 166 - Computational Biology

Simha and Staff

Credits: 3

Pairwise alignment and scoring. Multiple sequence alignment. Fragment assembly, physical mapping of DNA. Phylogenetic trees. Molecular structure prediction and protein folding. Microarrays and microarray data, image comparison. Clustering. Overview of biological databases, PDB, MMDB, GenBank. Draft genomes and genome browsers. Pathway databases. May be taken for graduate credit. Prerequisites: CSci 144, CSci 151 or 212.