CS M121/221: Introduction to Bioinformatics

Undergraduate/Graduate course, UCLA, Computer Science, 2022

Topics covered

• CS Algorithms
• Graph algorithms (genome assembly)
• Clustering algorithms
• Dimentional reduction algorithms (PCA, TSNE, UMAP)
• Contemporary methods in Bioinformatics
• DNA-seq and Census-seq (also known as *-seq)
• RNA-seq, pseudoalignment and kallisto
• Single-cell RNA-seq
• Probability and statistics
• Conditional probabilities
• Statistical inference: Expectation Maximization