 | Undergraduate Course Descriptions
CSE181 - Molecular Sequence Analysis
Units: 4
Course Objectives:
Special Note: Crosslisted with BIMM 181 and BENG 181.
Course Description:
This course covers the analysis of nucleic acid and protein sequences, with an emphasis on the application of algorithms to biological problems. Topics include sequence alignments, database searching, comparative genomics, and phylogenetic and clustering analyses. Pairwise alignment, Multiple alignment, DNA sequencing, Scoring functions, Fast database search, Comparative genomics, Clustering, Phylogenetic trees, Gene finding/DNA statistics.
Format:
3 hours of lecture per week, 1 hour of discussion section per week, and 8 hours of outside preparation.
Prerequisites:
CSE 100 or Math 176, CSE 101 or Math 188, BIMM 100 or Chem 114D.
Offered:
Spring 2003.
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