BIOL 3300 - Introduction to Bioinformatics

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Biology

Description:

This course is intended to be a basic introduction to Bioinformatics. At the core the main goal is for the students to understand what Bioinformaticians do and the types of jobs available. The class further allows the student to learn and gain experience in processing next generation sequencing data (NGS) and gives them an introduction to tools used by Bioinformaticians. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Contrast job and career opportunities available to Bioinformaticians; 2. Demonstrate proficiency in basic unix commands to process data; 3. Utilize NCBI blast and databases; 4. Perform pairwise alignments and homology; 5. Contrast different types of NGS data; 6. Perform basic QC on FASTQ files; 7. Summarize genome assembly and genome mapping; 8. Describe variant calling and outline the VCF format. Prerequisite: CS 1400 and IT 1100 (IT 1100 can be taken concurrently). SP

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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