Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Effectively use word - processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and email software tools.
- Identify and navigate important biological databases.
- Use appropriate tools for searching and analyzing biological data (FASTA, BLAST, CLUSTALW, etc.).
- Prepare a phylogenetic analysis using a computer program.
- Use a basic protein folding program.
- Use the common programming language, Perl, to create programs that accomplish basic bioinformatics tasks.