C&S BIO 183Deconstructing Research Methods in Computational Biology
Computational and Systems Biology · 2 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Students are exposed to research methodology and offered a peek behind the scenes of a typical computational research project. Open to students who are new to research or about to join a research laboratory. These students benefit from learning topics about research design, planning, and execution of a project and its culmination as a published research article. Study adopts a reductionist (as much as possible) approach, and focuses on some specific research questions and methods of addressing them. Faculty guests present a compilation of key research papers that tackles specific problems in their field. Students complete an in-depth analysis of the papers and formulate projects that mirror the research problems and solutions as described in the paper.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
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.