Course Catalog - 2005-2006

     

STAT 470 - FROM SEQUENCE TO STRUCTURE

Long Title: FROM SEQUENCE TO STRUCTURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Department: Statistics
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 4
Prerequisite(s): COMP 280 AND COMP 212 AND STAT 310 OR STAT 331
Description: This course is a modern introduction to problems in computational biology spanning sequence to structure. The course has three modules: the first introduces statistical techniques in sequence analysis; the second covers statistical machine learning techniques for understanding experimental data generated in computational biology; and the third introduces problems in the structure of complex biomolecules. Cross-list: COMP 470.
Course URL: http://statistics.rice.edu/courses.cfm