BME 4350

Course Description

Introduces genomics and bioinformatics theory and tools to analyze large scale biological data. Specific topics covered are Introduction to Linux and R statistical programming language, computations on the high-performance computational cluster, analysis of sequencing data with applications in gene expression and protein/DNA interactions, differential expression analysis, pathway and co-expression network analysis. Prereq: (APMA 3110 or APMA 3100 or MATH 3100) and (CS 1110 or CS 1111 or CS 1112 with grade of C- or better or successfully completed CS 1110 place-out test) and BME major or minor