BME 570 - Advanced Bioinformatics

Credits: 3

The course covers advanced topics in modern bioinformatics. Topics include, advanced database searching and sequence alignment, molecular phylogeny and evolution, analysis of next-generation sequence data, microarray data analysis, protein analysis and proteomics, and personalized medicine and drug design. The course includes computer labs as part of the lectures that cover computational tools used to analyze genomic and proteomic data. Prerequisites: BME 340, graduate standing in BME, or instructor approval.