GS010123  Integrative Bioinformatics

Almeida, Jonas. Three semester hours. Spring, annually. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

This course is organized to equip students with both fundamental and practical knowledge of computational tools to develop and/or use web-based bioinformatics tools for data management and analysis. The structure of the coursework starts with introducing the students to scientific computing programming environments and approaches where web-services and semantic web integrative environments can be integrated through the deployment and distribution of computational applications. The classes and teaching style are very much hands-on with evaluation based solely on weekly homework assignments (2/3) and a final presentation (1/3). The course work was designed to start with familiarization of the technological basis for identifying data structures, representing them using interoperable formats, and processing them using standard computational statistics libraries. The students are strongly encouraged to bring and discuss datasets they want to analyze as part of their own research interests.