Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is the glue that allows us to manipulate, utilize, and learn from vast amounts of biological data. Bioinformatics tools and databases enable various scientific, technological, and biomedical applications that would otherwise be impossible to achieve. Familiarity with bioinformatics concepts and widely used tools allows one to leverage biological data effectively to produce useful biological information. This course will cover the three pillars of bioinformatics fundamentals - command line basics, creating and using databases, and introductory programming (in Python).  In learning these, you will use resources like NCBI's Entrez and EBI and popular analysis tools such as sequence search (BLAST), gene prediction, and more. Together, these tools provide an excellent overview of how bioinformatics is applied in the industry.


For more information about this course, contact: appliedscience@ucsd.edu. 

Course Number: BIOL-40236
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Applied Bioinformatics

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9/30/2024 - 12/6/2024

$725

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• SECTION ID:

  182204

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Orvis, Joshua

  Joshua Orvis works in his primary research position in Bioinformatics at the Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, but he has always enjoyed teaching and began teaching graduate students in 2000. He has an undergraduate degree in microbiology (University of Oklahoma) and a master's degree in Bioinformatics (Johns Hopkins) and has been teaching in the JHU master's program since 2011. His primary research areas include genomic annotation, transcriptomics, data visualization, and metagenomics. His preferred toolbox includes the LAMP stack (with Python), distributed grid computing, cloud computing, etc. When off the clock, he loves spending time with his four (teenager!) kids, disc golf, reading, writing, drawing, and working on his collecti...Read More

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  No refunds after: 10/7/2024.
  

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• DATE & LOCATION:

  9/30/2024 - 12/6/2024
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  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.