Academic Catalog

BIN501 INTRODUCTION TO BIOINFORMATICS

Course Code: 9080501
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Bioinformatics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course will provide an introduction to bioinformatics. The computational techniques for mining the large amount of information produced by biological experiments such as genome sequencing, microarray technology, and other high-throughput experimental methods will be introduced. The main emphasis of the course is to provide an overview of the area and describe solutions to fundamental problems of bioinformatics such as DNA and protein sequence alignment, protein structural alignment, protein/RNA structure prediction, phylogenetic tree construction, microarray data analysis, and analysis of gene/protein networks.