BTC 530 - Applied Bioinformatics

Graduate standing. (4)

Introduction to 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. Not open to students with credit for BTC 430. Graded ABCDE