BIOL 454 - Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution

Spring (3) Smith Prerequisite(s): MATH 112 or 113, BIOL 225, or consent of instructor.

An introduction to computational molecular biology and molecular evolution including nucleotide and amino acid sequence comparison, DNA fragment assembly, phylogenetic tree construction and inference, RNA and protein secondary structure prediction and substitution models of sequence evolution. (Cross listed with APSC 454)