Request to establish BINF 4010, 4201, 4211, and 4650

Date: May 27, 2010
To: College of Computing & Informatics
From: Clarence Greene, Faculty Governance Administrative Assistant
Approved On: May 21, 2010
Implementation Date: 2010

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BINF 4010. Topics in Bioinformatics and Genomics. (1-3) Prerequisite: Permission of the department. (May be repeated for credit with the permission of the department. A student may register for multiple sections of the course with different topics in the same semester or in different semesters.) (On demand)

BINF 4201. Introduction to Bioinformatics. (4) Prerequisites: BIOL 2120 and BIOL 2130 or equivalent. Introduction to biological databases, commonly-used bioinformatics software for molecular sequence and structure analysis, and application of bioinformatics analysis in biological research. (Fall)

BINF 4211. Applied Data Mining for Bioinformatics. (4) Prerequisite: Permission of the department. Concepts and techniques of evaluating bioinformatics data. The objective of this course is to provide students with a working knowledge of data sources, current tools and methodologies used for bioinformatics research though a variety of hands-on data analysis activities. (Spring)

BINF 4650. Senior Project. (3) Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission of the department. An individual or group project in the teaching, theory, or application of bioinformatics, genomics, or computational biology under the direction of a faculty member. Projects must be approved by the department before they can be initiated. (On demand)