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BENG 181Molecular Sequence Analysis

4 units · BENG · UC San Diego

(Cross-listed as BIMM 181 and CSE 181.) This course covers the analysis of nucleic acid and protein sequences, with an emphasis on the application of algorithms to biological problems. Topics include sequence alignments, database searching, comparative genomics, and phylogenetic and clustering analyses. Pairwise alignment, multiple alignment, DNA sequencing, scoring functions, fast database search, comparative genomics, clustering, phylogenetic trees, gene finding/DNA statistics.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “CSE 100; CSE 101; BIMM 100 or CHEM 114C; bioinformatics majors only. (W)”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Required in (1)

  • Bioengineering: Bioinformatics (B.S.)

One of the options in (1)

  • Computer Science with Specialization in Bioinformatics (B.S.)
What it opens up

Courses that list BENG 181 as a prerequisite (5)

  • BENG 125 Modeling and Computation in Bioengineering
  • BENG 187A Bioengineering Design Project: Planning
  • BIMM 185 Bioinformatics Laboratory (Advanced)
  • CSE 181R Molecular Sequence Analysis
  • CSE 184 Computational Molecular Biology