Why is computer science indispensable for discoveries in life and 
medical sciences? How are buzz words such as personal disease 
profiling, precision medicine, second human brain only made possible 
by computational science? Answers will be found through taking this 
class. You will learn essential bioinformatics algorithms and work 
on several exciting projects that transform big bio-data into 
knowledge discovery. Big bio-data include genomics, transcriptomic, 
proteomic, metagenomics, metatranscriptomic, etc, collected from 
healthy/cancer people and various environments. Students from diverse 
background are encouraged to take this course as the projects require 
integration of knowledge and skills encompassing algorithm development, 
statistics, biology, and high performance computing. Hands-on research 
experience brings it to home that without computational science, new 
knowledge discovery in life/biomedical science is impossible in this 
era of bio-data tsunami.