Advanced Bioinformatics

Advanced Bioinformatics covers computational problems in molecular biology, including sequence modeling, phylogenetics, and genome analysis.

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Historical reviews of Colin Dewey: The course is very hard and covers a broad range of bioinformatics topics, with exams testing material beyond lectures.

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Historical reviews of Colin Dewey: Colin Dewey is knowledgeable in bioinformatics, including RSEM. However, the course was very hard and tested beyond lecture scope. Materials covered a broad range of topics.

COLIN DEWEY is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Historical reviews of Colin Dewey: Colin Dewey teaches a very hard course that tests students beyond lecture scope, though he demonstrates deep expertise in bioinformatics.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.72 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.91 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Colin Dewey: The course is very hard and covers a broad range of bioinformatics topics, with exams testing material beyond lectures.

Historical reviews of Colin Dewey: Students find the course difficult, but the instructor is knowledgeable and covers a wide range of bioinformatics material.

Topics

  • Sequence classes and features
  • Phylogenetic tree construction
  • Gene-expression data analysis
  • Protein and RNA structure prediction
  • Whole-genome analysis and comparisons

Skills

  • Modeling sequence classes and features
  • Phylogenetic tree construction
  • Gene-expression data analysis
  • Protein and RNA structure prediction
  • Whole-genome analysis and comparisons

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