BIOINFO 229Current Topics in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics, Graduate · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction of active research topics in bioinformatics. Topics vary by instructor research area and include statistical genomics, epigenomics, single-cell analysis, metagenomics, and diagnostic informatics. Overview of research area and associated biological and technological background. Discussion of representative problems and presentation of their computational modeling and solutions. Students gain overview of current topics in bioinformatics and learn how to model and solve biological problems with computational methods.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.