Introduction to analysis, management, and visualization of cellular information at the molecular level. The course includes an overview of mathematical modeling and simulation, pattern matching, methods for phylogenetics, gene recognition, distributed and parallel biological computing, designing and managing biological databases (both relational and object-oriented), linking disparate databases and data, data mining, reasoning by analogy, hypothesis formation and testing by machine. Lect: 3 hrs. Prerequisites: (CPS 118 or CPS 125 or CPS 109) and BLG 143, Antirequisite: BME 501 Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
