Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Western Main Campus

Medical Bioinformatics 3100A/B

INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL BIOINFORMATICS


General topics in medical bioinformatics, including public databases, bioinformatic data formats, sequence comparison and alignment, and next-generation sequence processing (mapping, de novo assembly). Labs introduce the command line interface, working within the Linux filesystem, and basic concepts in utilizing open source assets, batch processing and the implementation of bioinformatic workflows.

Antirequisite(s): Computer Science 4461A/B.


Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours per week. This course does not require any prior experience with computer programming.

Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth: CATEGORY C i  
Subject Code: MBI

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