Introduction to the fundamentals of recombinant DNA technology; human genome project; gene therapy; biotechnology; plants and animals and genetically engineered food; an overview of some features of the controversy over genetic engineering; laws, regulations and rules.
Prerequisite
Zoo 342, Zoo 352
Zoo 456
Bioinformatics
2 (1+1)
Content
Introduction to computational biology and bioinformatics; data analysis; sequencing of proteins and nucleic acids; determination and assembly of genome sequences; predicting protein structure; DNA microarray data analysis; data collection; biological pattern discrimination; bionetworks; applications of bioinformatics software and tools.