BIOL 259 - Intro to Bioinformatics

Credits: (0-4)
This course represents an introduction to the field of bioinformatics and aims to teach students how biological data, particularly sequencing data, is generated, analyzed, and visualized. This introductory course will expose students to concepts such as experimental methods for generating bioinformatics data, databases used to store and retrieve data, computational tools used to analyze data, and programs and software for visualizing data. Together, the lecture and laboratory elements of the course intend to provide students with experience obtaining, processing, and visualizing biological data in order to better understand how data is presented in biomedical publications. Prerequisite(s): C- or higher in BIOL 111 or DATA 200 Fall, Even Years