Welcome to CS 300: Bioinformatics at Calvin College. This course introduces algorithms and computational techniques for biological data. There are many possible topics for this course including sequence algorithms, gene and structure prediction, molecular phylogenetics, analysis of microarray data and many more!

Students who complete this course will demonstrate that they can:

This course will use the Python programming language for labs and projects, a widely used language for bioinformatic analyses (and generally useful language!). The material is considered in the context of the reformed Christian perspective.