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NATALIA POVAROVA, ESP Teacher
Major: Microbiology College/Employer: UChicago Year of Graduation: 2024 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)S1844: Introduction to bioinformatics in Cascade Cascade 2021 (Apr. 13, 2021)
When you think about biology, you usually think about the zoo and botanic garden. But in reality, modern biology is all about data and computers.
We will figure out:
How can you read the DNA sequence?
What do protein molecules look like?
How can you identify a genetic mutation or new virus variant?
Will a drug work to treat a given disease?
In the course we'll look at databases of genes and play with biological software.
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