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CS 580: Medical Informatics

To cover the basic algorithms and techniques used in bioinformatics, to give the student a good basis for work in this highly relevant field.

•	Introduction		1.5 hours
	￮	Molecular biology basics
	￮	DNA, RNA, Protein
•	Genomics		1.5 hours
•	Restriction mapping		5.0 hours
•	Map assembly		5.0 hours
•	Sequence comparison		5.0 hours
	￮	Exact and inexact matching
	￮	Global and local alignment
•	Multiple alignment, Dynamic time-warping, FASTA, BLAST		5.0 hours
•	Protein structure prediction and matching		5.0 hours
•	Gene prediction		6.0 hours
	￮	Hidden Markov Models
	￮	Other modeling techniques
Total			45 hours

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