Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.61 GPA, 84.2% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).
Spring 2027
General Bioinformatics for Microbiologists
Foundational bioinformatics course for microbiologists covering tools, databases, sequence alignment, phylogenetics, and scientific programming.
offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Karthik Anantharaman
Summary
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.61 GPA, 84.2% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.68 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Perform basic command line operations to navigate through an operating system
Recognize basic sequence data formats, access them through publicly available datasets, and utilize them in bioinformatics applications
Use sequence analysis programs by downloading and installing them locally on their own computers
Use publicly available bioinformatics databases
Create programs in a scientific programming language to conduct basic bioinformatics analyses
Demonstrate mastery of basic bioinformatics skills by completing a hands-on final project focused on the recovery and analyses of microbial genomes from public databases
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
6565 letter grades
A63.1%63.1%
AB24.6%24.6%
B7.7%7.7%
BC3.1%3.1%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F1.5%1.5%
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Prerequisites
Course mapMICROBIO 303,BIOCHEM 501, 507, or graduate/professional standing
- MICROBIO 303
- take one
- graduate/professional standing
This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.
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- Any of
- MICROBIO 303
- Any of
- graduate/professional standing
Professors
Spring 2027Historical instructors & teaching patterns
KARTHIK ANANTHARAMAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 40 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.61 GPA, 84.2% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.68 GPA, 82.4% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.76 GPA, 93.1% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
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Topics
- Command line manipulation, sequence alignment, file formats, and phylogenetic trees
- Genome/protein databases, microbial/viral genome interpretation, and scientific programming
Skills
- Command line navigation and file manipulation
- Bioinformatics tool application including sequence alignment and phylogenetic trees
- Scientific programming for bioinformatics analysis
- Recovery and analysis of microbial genomes from public databases
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
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Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A62.1%62.1%
AB31.0%31.0%
B3.4%3.4%
BC3.4%3.4%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.0%0.0%
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Through Spring 2026
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General Bioinformatics for Microbiologists
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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