Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology

This course is an introduction to computational biology emphasizing the fundamentals of nucleic acid and protein sequence and structural analysis; it also includes an introduction to the analysis of complex biological systems. Topics covered in the course include principles and methods used for sequence alignment, motif finding, structural modeling, structure prediction and network modeling, as well as currently emerging research areas. Level: Beginner. Free course materials from MIT OpenCourseWare including lecture notes, assignments, and exams.