BTC 430 - Applied Bioinformatics

BIO 328, or CHM 350, or CHM 450, or consent of instructor. (4)

Introduction to Unix and Python, and applying computational approaches towards studying fundamental concepts in molecular evolution. Emphasis on practical applications in biosynthetic pathway discovery, protein engineering, and metabolic engineering. Major topics include pairwise and multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetics, transcriptome assembly, genome analysis, and sequencing technologies. Graded ABCDE