The request to revise BINF 1101 and 1101L

Date: April 16, 2014
To: College of Computing & Informatics
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: March 31, 2014
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
Implementation Date: Spring 2015

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BINF 1101. Introduction to Bioinformatics and Genomics. (3 4). Corequisite: BINF 1101L. Designed to introduce students to the genomics perspective in the life sciences, this course combines a general introduction to genomic technologies and the bioinformatics methods used to analyze genome-scale data with a presentation of real world scientific problems where these technologies are having an impact. This course fulfills a general education science requirement. (Fall).

BINF 1101L. Introduction to Bioinformatics and Genomics Lab. (1 0). Prerequisite or corequisite: Co-requisite: BINF 1101. Designed to introduce students to the genomics perspective in the life sciences, this course provides hands-on experience with biological sequence and structure databases, using small-scale projects to introduce students to the world of Bioinformatics research. One three-hour laboratory per week (Fall).