Within the next five years the human race will see its own genome for the first time. An interdisciplinary effort between molecular biologists and computer scientists will be needed to extract the relevant biological information from this genome, and to understand not only the DNA itself, but the RNA and protein sequences that are made from it. In this course we will cover the computational methods used search for, analyze and model DNA, RNA and protein sequences. These form the core of an important and rapidly growing field of research, known variously as biosequence analysis, bioinformatics or computational molecular biology.
Responsible instructor: David Haussler, Prof. in CIS
Additional Instructors: Kevin Karplus (CE), Richard Hughey (CE), Lydia Gregoret (Chemistry)