FISH 546: Bioinformatics for Environmental Sciences
coming Winter 2010!This is a course developed for biologists and ecologists that will cover computational analysis of molecular sequence data. Computational analysis of these data is a valuable tool to better understand biological processes and facilitates new discoveries. Bioinformatics can be considered a way of providing meaning (by means of computer algorithms) to the thousands upon thousands of genetic material continually being sequenced. In this course we will primarily focus on the resources for non-model organisms and will spend time on biology (ie reviewing central dogma), techniques (ie gene expression analysis) and computer science (ie sequence database, pairwise sequence comparisons). Various genomic resources that are publicly available will be reviewed along with web-based and stand-alone software that is used for analysis and functional annotation. Furthermore, we will examine modern techniques for gene expression analysis including advantages, disadvantages, and proper post-experiment processing.
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| Instructor: Dr. Steven Roberts email 232 FTR (Fisheries Teaching Bldg) Tel: 206-600-4495 |