Academics · Grades 7–10

Bioinformatics

Decode the genome with code.

Course overview

  • Homework: 60 minutes a week
  • Prerequisite: Introduction to Data Science.

What you’ll learn

From genetic code to working code

  • The genetic foundation: DNA and the central dogma of molecular biology
  • Real genetic databases and the FASTA file format
  • GC-content analysis, mononucleotide and short tandem repeats
  • DNA classification and palindromic sequences
  • Sequence alignment — the core algorithm of bioinformatics
  • A final project on real sequence data

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