ECEN 853 COMPUTATIONAL AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (3 credits)
Provides the required biology primer and covers functional genomics, transcriptomics, differential expression, clustering, classification, prediction, biomarker discovery, pathway analysis and network based approaches to high throughput biological data analysis. Includes the development of databases, algorithms, web-based and other tools regarding management and analysis of life science data. Areas of study include DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analysis, functional genomics and proteomics, 3D macromolecule structure prediction, and systems/network approach. (Cross-listed with ECEN 453).
Prerequisite(s): By permission.