The El-Sayed Laboratory

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HLSC208

Integrative and Quantitative Concepts in Biology
Najib M. El-Sayed
Undergraduate Fall Semester 3 Credits

Prerequisite: BSCI170. Restriction: Restricted to students in the ILS Honors Program only.

This course is designed for entering students enrolled in the Honors College Integrated Life Sciences (ILS) program and uses an active learning approach to emphasize inquiry, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, and hands-on data analysis. This course will cover a variety of bioinformatic related topics, including genome assembly and scaffolding, sequence alignment algorithms, epigenetics, a bioinformatic examination of the central dogma in molecular biology, gene finding, proteomic analysis, the evolution of molecules, cells and organisms, molecular switches, and biological networks.