CSC 691: Bioinformatics introduction and methods

Course Description

Bioinformatics is a rapidly evolving field that studies biological systems and biological data (such as DNA/protein sequences, macromolecular structures and functional genomics data) using analytic theory and practical tools of computer science, mathematics and statistics. The topics include concepts of molecular genetics, biological databases, database searching, sequence alignments, phylogenetic trees, structure prediction, and microarray data analysis.

Topics covered

• Introduction
• Sequence alignment 
• Sequence alignment and searching (source: SFU NGS Bioinformatics Workshop Match 2012)
• Biological Databases
• Gene Finding and hidden markov models
• Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• Metagenomics
• Structural varaitions
• Cancer related subnetwork markers.

Course materials: 

Only sample material is avaialble on this page for future students who would like to check the course before registering.
All course materials and assignments are on blackboard. (lms.ksu.edu.sa)

Grade distribution: 

Assignments (weekly):                          25%
Midterm:  (~week 6 )                               15% 
Project (Final reprot and presentation):  50%