Biological Data Analysis
BIOL 7060/8060Spring 2023
This course illustrates data analysis techniques used to answer questions in the biological sciences through case studies of real world datasets from physiology, genomics, and biomedicine. Students gain hands-on experience answering biological questions via the writing and execution of computer code in the R/Bioconductor analysis environment. Specific applications include: evaluating effects of drugs on sleep duration, assessing insecticide efficacy, and diagnosing heart disease based on clinical measurements, among others.
Data Science for Biologists
BIOL 7708/8708Fall 2016, Spring 2019, Spring 2021
This graduate level course presents a hands-on survey of statistical and computational analyses commonly applied to biological data. The course provides an introduction to computer programming in the R language and software environment. Using real-world biological datasets from discipines such as physiology and genomics, the course explores supervised and unsupervised learning approaches such as linear and logistic regression, K-nearest neighbors, principal components analysis, and hierarchical clustering.
Survey of Genomics and Bioinformatics
BIOL 4092/6092Spring 2017, Fall 2017
Survey of modern genomics and bioinformatics approaches: experimental and bioinformatics methods for predicting RNA folding, generating and analyzing genome-scale DNA sequence data, and performing functional genomics analyses; real-world applications of genomics and bioinformatics in medicine and agriculture.
Introduction to Genomics and Bioinformatics
BIOL 4490/6490Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
Introduction to modern genomics and bioinformatics approaches used to gain a deeper understanding of biological systems; brief review of basic chemistry, molecular and evolutionary biology; experimental and bioinformatics methods for predicting RNA folding, generating and analyzing genome-scale DNA sequence data, and performing analyses of gene expression, DNA methylation, and chromatin immunoprecipitation data.
Current Literature in Bioinformatics
BINF 7970Spring 2019, Spring 2020
Lectures, readings, discussions, and oral presentations from current bioinformatics research articles.
General Biology I
BIOL 1110Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
This course is the first in the two-semester General Biology sequence, emphasizing unifying principles of biology with focus on cell structure and function, biochemistry, genetics, and evolution.