Courses of Study 2015-2016 
    
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Courses of Study 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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BTRY 4840 - Computational Genetics and Genomics

(crosslisted) CS 4775  
     


Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: BTRY 3010  and at least one course in algorithms. Co-meets with BTRY 6840 .

A. Williams.

Computational methods for analyzing genetic and genomic data.  Topics include sequence alignment, hidden Markov Models for discovering sequence features, inferring haplotypes and local ancestry, genotype imputation, gene and motif finding, and phylogenetic tree reconstruction. Prior knowledge of biology is not necessary to complete this course.

Grad students must do a final project that involves original research and that in most circumstances will involve programming and real data.

Undergrads will not need to do research, but will do a final project that involves a sizeable amount of programming, comprehensive literature review of a topic, or similar.

Outcome 1: Understand computational algorithms used for the analysis of genetic and genomic data

Outcome 2: Formulate computational approaches for solving problems in computational genomics

Outcome 3: Understand challenges and limitations in inference methods used in computational genetics and genomics



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