Uedu Open/Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology
7.91J
Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology
Prof. Christopher Burge, Prof. David Gifford, Prof. Ernest Fraenkel
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Spring 2014
Science & MathBiologyEngineeringBiological EngineeringSystems EngineeringComputation and Systems BiologyComputational BiologyComputational Modeling and Simulation
This course is an introduction to computational biology emphasizing the fundamentals of nucleic acid and protein sequence and structural analysis; it also includes an introduction to the analysis of complex biological systems. Topics covered in the course include principles and methods used for sequence alignment, motif finding, structural modeling, structure prediction and network modeling, as well as currently emerging research areas.