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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

CISC 436 - Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Credit(s): 3
COMP BIOL AND BIOINFORMATICS
Component: Lecture
Concepts, methodologies, and tools in bioinformatics. Abstraction of biological problems for computational solutions. Genome sequencing and assembly, bio-sequence analysis and comparison and database search, dynamics programming, hidden Markov models, and phylogenetic trees.
Repeatable for Credit: N Allowed Units: 3 Multiple Term Enrollment: N Grading Basis: Student Option
PREREQ: CISC 220  . ANTIREQ: Students who received credit in CISC 636 are not eligible to take this course without permission.
Course Typically Offered: Verify offering with Dept
General Education Objectives:
GE5A: Reason Quantitatively GE5B: Reason Computationally GE5C: Reason Scientifically