CPSC 569 (ANSC 542): Applied Bioinformatics

Course Description	Introduction to theoretical and applied aspects of bioinformatics. Topics include genomic and proteomic databases, sequence alignment and search algorithms (e.g., BLAST, FASTA, CLUSTAL W), predictive methods in DNA sequence, machine-learning techniques (e.g., Hidden Markov Models) and data mining, biomolecular structure and its prediction, molecular evolution and phylogenetic reconstruction, structural genomics and phylogenomics. Concepts are complemented with hands-on experience with computational biology databases and bioinformatic tools. **NOTE: Class is only offered during the spring semester.
Instructors	Gustavo Caetano-Anolles 332 National Soybean Research Center Phone: (217) 333-8172 E-mail: gca@uiuc.edu Sandra Rodriguez-Zas e-mail: rodrgzzs@uiuc.edu
Prerequisites	Graduate level status or consent of instructor.

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