Fundamentals of Bioinformatics
GINF 5001

• Newark - 5:00-8:00 pm, Monday
  • Begins January 10 - MSB C-632
• Piscataway - 1:00 - 4:00 pm Wednesday
  • Begins January 12 - RWJMS Bioinformatics Lab, V-12

Introduction to the field and its tool sets: the algorithms of informatics, sequence analysis and structural bioinformatics. Develop skills in the UNIX environment, file management and applications using a variety of databases. 3 Credit Hours. Prerequisite: Background in basic molecular biology, GSND5200N or permission of the Instructor. Coordinator: Dr. Bruce Byrne

Structural Bioinformatics I
GINF 5003

• Newark - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Monday
  • Begins January 24 - Room MSB C-632.
• Piscataway - 1:00pm - 4:00 pm, Tuesday
  • Begins January 25 - RWJMS Bioinformatics Lab, V-12

Introduction to cheminformatics, searching small molecule databases. Computational methods for small molecules, conformers. Alternative approaches to drug design and analysis of molecular interactions important for development of novel small molecule therapeutics from lead compounds (isolation of the pharmacophore). 3 Credit Hours. Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Bioinformatics. Coordinator: Dr. John Kerrigan

Biological Database Systems and Computational Genomics
GINF 5020

• Newark - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Tuesday
  • Begins January 11 - Room MSB C-632.
• Piscataway - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Thursday
  • Begins January 13 - RWJMS Bioinformatics Lab, V-12

Public and proprietary sequence databases, the applications that address them, their management and integration. Sequence analysis and manipulation; array analyses, proteomics and genomics. 3 Credit Hours. Prerequisites: Fundamantals of Bioinformatics. Coordinator: Dr. Ming Ouyang

Special Topics in Bioinformatics
GINF 5030

Newark and Piscataway: Arranged Coordinator: Dr. Bruce Byrne

Revision Date: December 21, 2004