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COMP 5800 - Introduction to Bioinformatics (3)

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field in which biology and computer science merge. This course is designed to introduce students with concepts, methods and tools to analyze biological problems, prepare students with skills necessary to communicate across the fields of computer science and biology. Topics include (but not limited to) biological sequence and literature databases, strategies to search these databases to solve fundamental biological problems, principle and algorithms used for processing and analyzing biological information.