Overview on bioinformatics

Dr. Khanh Le will give you an outline for this course. First, he will give a short introduction to bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field. It needs a lot of knowledge from different fields such as computer science, statistic, biochemistry, engineering, and etc.

Then he will introduce branches of bioinformatics. There are four branches, sequence analysis, gene and protein expression, structural bioinformatics, and network and system biology.