Bioinformatics
University of California Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension
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Campus location
Santa Clara, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
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Earliest start date
Sep 2023
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Introduction
Big data is everywhere, and its presence across multiple industries will continue to stimulate job growth in the pharma, biotech, and software industries. This certificate program is designed in consultation with industry leaders to meet biologists and computer scientists' need to analyze and interpret today’s deluge of biological information. Tailor your studies to your particular needs and interests while learning the tools and methods of bioinformatics. Life scientists delve into data tech, and computer scientists gain a background in molecular biology.
Bioinformatics certificate program objectives
- Use public domain bioinformatics tools, including Genbank and the Protein Data Bank (PDB).
- Employ statistical design of experiment (SDOE) to analyze experimental data and factors affecting outputs.
- Distinguish key molecular biology techniques—gene cloning, manipulation, sequencing; PCR; RNA interference; and gene expression analysis.
- Complete a computational biology project using Java.
- Recognize sequence analysis techniques such as Hidden Markov Models and RNA analysis.
- Query and read DNA sequences from Fasta files.
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