Academic Calendar - 2021 ARCHIVE
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2021ARCHIVE
Medical Bioinformatics 4750F/G
BIOINFORMATICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
An overview of concepts and applications of techniques in bioinformatics for the study and clinical/public health management of infectious diseases. Students are introduced to the basic analysis of conventional and next-generation sequence data, principles of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference, reconstructing epidemic and evolutionary histories, detecting adaptation, and molecular epidemiology.
Antirequisite(s): Microbiology and Immunology 4750F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Biology 2581A/B; Biology 2290F/G; and either Biology 2244A/B or Statistical Sciences 2244A/B.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Biochemistry 3383F/G if Biology 2290F/G has not been taken; Microbiology and Immunology 2500A/B is recommended.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours. Cross-listed with Microbiology and Immunology 4750F/G.
Course Weight: 0.50
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CATEGORY C
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Subject Code: MBI
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Medical Bioinformatics 4750F/G
BIOINFORMATICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
An overview of concepts and applications of techniques in bioinformatics for the study and clinical/public health management of infectious diseases. Students are introduced to the basic analysis of conventional and next-generation sequence data, principles of maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference, reconstructing epidemic and evolutionary histories, detecting adaptation, and molecular epidemiology.
Antirequisite(s): Microbiology and Immunology 4750F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Biology 2581A/B; Biology 2290F/G; and either Biology 2244A/B or Statistical Sciences 2244A/B.
Pre-or Corequisite(s): Biochemistry 3383F/G if Biology 2290F/G has not been taken; Microbiology and Immunology 2500A/B is recommended.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours. Cross-listed with Microbiology and Immunology 4750F/G.
Microbiology and Immunology 4750F/G - BIOINFORMATICS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE