Ever wonder how computer science has revolutionized the fields of life and biomedical sciences? In this class, you will understand the impact of computer science on biology and why biology is crippled without the help of computer science. You will be exposed and work on a number of interesting projects, such as analyzing/processing hundreds of GB sequence data generated from healthy human guts and sick human guts, computationally predict or identify microbes that might be deadly pathogens that carry antibiotic resistance. You will conduct exciting research in coming up with new tools that helps/facilitates this process. The only requirement is that you are excited about the challenges arising from big data generated in biology.

Prerequisite: permission of instructor.