BIOL 361 Bioinformatics Laboratory

1 Credit(s)

This laboratory course, to be taken concurrently with the Bioinformatics lecture, BIOL 360/560, provides a hands-on, inquiry-based, laboratory experience for undergraduate science majors. The laboratory has four major goals: 1) Reinforce and extend the theoretical concepts from the lecture; 2) Connect biological concepts with practical bioinformatics tools and databases; 3) Expose students to computational concepts far more powerful than point-and-click web-based bioinformatics tools; 4) Provide important skills that are widely used in real-world biological and biomedical research. Each week’s lab focuses on a particular topic that is closely related to the lecture. After a brief overview by the laboratory instructor, students will run computational bioinformatics experiments and collect the results. After the labs, students will write short lab reports.

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:

BIOL 210 or 212 and
BIOL 252 or 254.

Corequisite: BIOL 360