CS-6824: Genome Bioinformatics

Liqing Zhang, Computer Science

This course is intended for students with or without background in
biology, to get to know current state-of-the art bioinformatics in
the genomic era.  With the prospect of personalized medicine and the
coming age of $1000 genomes, analysis of genome data has met with many
challenges and many exciting topics emerge as a result. This course will
include an introduction to the field and hands-on experience with possible
genome-oriented research projects that will benefit from collaborative
work between students from computational sciences and biological science.

Students from both computational sciences (CS, math, and statistics) and
life sciences are encouraged to attend the class, which will not only
introduce you to some important topics in this area, but also give you
hands-on experience working on a project and writing up a research paper.