2010 Course Handbook
BCA810: Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics addresses problems related to the storage, retrieval and analysis of information about biological structure. This unit provides a broad-ranging study of bioinformatics, covering quantitative methods in population genetics, the analysis of single and multiple sequences, hidden Markov models, evolutionary models, phylogenetics and microarray analysis. It also includes study of web-based data sources, data retrieval and BLAST, and uses the statistical package R.
A background in biology is desirable.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: | X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year (On Campus session: No session) |
| Staff Contact: | Professor Graham Wood |
| Prerequisites: | (BCA808 and BCA809) or STAT371 or STAT810 or (STAT271 and STAT272 and ACST399) |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCWs: | STAT817 |
| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Statistics Faculty of Science |