Time & Place:

Instructor:
Jun Ni, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
Tel: (319) 335-5486, Fax: (319) 335-5505
E-mail: jni@cs.uiowa.edu;

Office Hours:

Textbook:
Address Baxevanis and Francis Ouellette, "Bioinformatics", Wiley Interscience, 2001. ISBN 0-471-38391-1.
The information about the textbook can be obtained at http://www.wiley.com/legacy/products/subject/life/bioinformatics/index.html.

Class Lecture Notes:
Additional notes or handouts may be available in classroom.

Course Description:

This course is designed for students who wish to develop considerable competence in bioinformatics. It emphasizes basis and methodology of bioinformatics, among details of computational approaches to biological science. It addresses basic concepts of bioinformatics. It reviews and summarizes the computational skills needed to solve problems in biology. It discusses how to obtain, establish, and maintain research information in biology. It presents many solutions to bioinformatics, including software packages available, usages, and development.

Prerequisites:

 

Objectives:

It provides great learning opportunity for students who are computer/computational science or engineering major to understand the needs in computational biology. It also provides potentials for students who are majors of biological science to learn knowledge of computer science and technology and computational skills, which can be used to their research.

 

Grading:
4 team-based projects (reading, development, and presentation) 80%, and final project 20%.

Disability Issue:

I need to hear from anyone who has a disability which may require some modification of seating, testing or other class requirements so that appropriate arrangements may be made. Please see me after class or during my office hours.

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