Learning outcomes

The course targets students with biological background. The objective is to gain basic understanding of fundamental concepts in computer science to facilitate interdisciplinary communication in bioinformatics. The course also provides necessary background for the follow-up courses on algorithms in bioinformatics.

Contents

The course provides an overview of the most important concepts in computer science. Basic concepts in machine architecture and data representation are explained, followed by an introduction to essential data structures and operations over them. Further, some of the fundamentals of complexity and computability are presented, together with selected topics from artificial intelligence that are of relevance to bioinformatics.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	15 h	0 h

Lectures, exercises and assignments.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

1. year autumn

Study materials

Brookshear, J. Glenn: Computer Science: An overview, 2008, ISBN: 978-0321524034;

lecture notes.

Further information

Organization responsible: Turku DIT

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