Spring 2027

Bioinformatics for Biologists

Bioinformatics for Biologists covers bioinformatics theory and principles, providing real-world experience applicable to students' own work.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Eric Johannsen

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.58 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.55 GPA, 72.7% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify the appropriate analysis tools for common bioinformatics problems, format data, execute the analysis, and adjust necessary parameters.

  • Interpret results of common bioinformatic analysis including their own results as well as the published works of others.

  • Demonstrate competence in bioinformatic analysis by conducting an original analysis of primary data from their own lab or publicly available databases.

  • Understand the assumptions and principles of bioinformatic pipelines and their implications for validity and statistical significance.

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ONCOLOGY 778

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.58 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.55 GPA, 72.7% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ERIC JOHANNSEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.58 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.55 GPA, 72.7% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Bioinformatics theory and principles
  • Evaluation of existing bioinformatics tools
  • Identification of analyses requiring novel tool development
  • Common bioinformatics problems, data formatting, execution, and parameter adjustment
  • Assumptions and principles of bioinformatic pipelines, validity, and statistical significance

Skills

  • Bioinformatics theory and principles
  • Critically evaluating existing bioinformatics tools and identifying needs for novel tools
  • Identifying analysis tools, formatting data, executing analyses, and adjusting parameters
  • Interpreting results of common bioinformatic analyses and published works
  • Understanding assumptions and principles of bioinformatic pipelines and their implications for validity and statistical significance

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ONCOLOGY 778 · Spring 2027

Bioinformatics for Biologists

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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