GCC - 548 Bioinformatics

This course provides a practical, broad-based foundation in biomedical informatics. Topics in acquisition, analysis and storage of information in health care, biomedical research and public health will be presented. The course will primarily use a problem-oriented interactive format to illustrate meaningful applications of information technology. Publicly available large data sets and tools will be used to teach basic techniques in data collection and queries, visual presentation of data, comparative effectiveness analysis, decision support, natural language processing and genomics. No computer programming skills are required. Retake Counts for Credit: No. Pass/No Pass Grading Allowed: No. Credit(s): 1