Wayne State Bioinformatics Education

http://www.bioinformatics.wayne.edu/
http://bioinformatics.wayne.edu/MCBI/

PERL Training: A user training and seminar program series has been initiated, beginning with a workshop on using Perl.
Intensive Summer Course: With the assistance of the Shiffman Medical Library we are again going to offer and intensive summer course for beginning graduate students. This will be our eighth year

Graduate Courses at Wayne State in Comp-Sci & Genetics related to Bioinformatics and Bio-IT

MBG 7010: Introduction to Molecular Biology and Genetics - Fall 2002
IBS 7030: Biomedical Functional Genomics - Winter 2002
MBG 7600: Advanced Human Genetics - Winter 2002
MBG 8680: Computer Applications in Molecular Genetics - Summer 2002
SURP: CMMG Summer Undergraduate Research Program
IBS: Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Program.

5260 Computer Networks and Distributed Systems. Cr. 3
Prereq: CSC 4420. Introduction to the topic; data communications protocols; local area networks; distributed applications. (Y)

5680 Introduction to Modeling and Simulation. (I E 5180). Cr. 3
Prereq: CSC 2110 or 5050 and MAT 2210. Review of statistics; queuing analysis; categories of models; general purpose simulation languages; model validation; experimental design; output analysis. (I)

5710 Design of Intelligent Information Systems. Cr. 3
Prereq: CSC 4710, 5800. Object-oriented data modeling; intelligent office information systems; decision support systems; deductive databases; hypertext; specific applications in interfacing commercial databases and expert systems. (Y)

5750 Principles of Web Technology. Cr.3
Prereq: CSC 3750 or senior or graduate standing. History and development of the world-wide web. Techniques for authoring static and dynamic content for the worldwide web. Web security techniques. Electronic commerce on the web. Lab exercises required. (FW)

5800 Expert Systems: Tools and Languages. Cr.3
Prereq: CSC 2200 or 5050. Survey of languages and tools or the development of expert systems applicatons. Introduction to functional, logical, and object-oriented programming and to various commercially available expert system environments; specific applications in areas of computer science, medicine, and engineering. (I)

5830 Computational Modeling of Complex Systems. Cr. 3
Prereq: knowledge of a programming language; MAT 2010. Introduction to computer methods useful for modeling complex systems which are refractory to traditional methods of analysis. Emphasis on problem formulation and concrete examples, especially examples drawn from biology. (I)

5860 Introduction to Pattern Recognition and Image Processing. Cr. 3
Prereq: senior standing. Model of a pattern recognition system; representation techniques for classifiers; parametric and nonparametric classification methods; clustering; fundamentals of image formation and acquisition; image enhancement methods; feature extraction for two-dimensional visual pattern recognition; document image processing and recognition. (Y)

5880 Principles of Natural Computing. Cr. 3
Prereq: senior or graduate standing. Introduction to basic principles of information processing in biological systems; similarities and differences between biological systems and computing machines; implication of biological information processing principles and mechanisms for artificial intelligence. (B)

6220, 7220 Parallel Computing I, II, Seminar series
Prereq: CSC 2200, 4100. Parallel computing concepts, examples of parallel computers, parallelism in algorithms/data/programs, experiences with state of the art parallel computers. (Y)

6260, 7260 Distributed Systems I, II, Seminar series
Prereq: CSC 4420. Introduction to distributed systems; distributed systems architecture and design goals; inter process communication and synchronization; concurrent programming with threads; client- server programming (with Berkeley sockets); distributed applications development using remote procedure calls. (Y)

6500, 7500 Theory of Languages and Automata I, II, Seminar series
Prereq: graduate standing. Finite-state, context-free, context-sensitive, recursive, and r.e. languages; Chomsky hierarchy; grammars and automata; decidability and computability; Rice's theorem; basic complexity theory. (Y)

6580 Design and Analysis of Algorithms. Cr. 3
Prereq: CSC 2200. Best case, worst case, and expected case complexity analysis; asymptotic approximations; solutions of recurrence equations; probabilistic techniques; divide-and-conquer; the greedy approach; dynamic programming; branch and bound; NP-completeness; parallel algorithms. (Y)

6710, 7710 Database Management Systems I, II, Seminar series
Prereq: CSC 2200 or 5050. Data models; entity-relationship, relational, object-oriented; query languages; relational database design; physical data organization; query processing. (Y)

6800, 7800 Artificial Intelligence I, II, Seminar series
Prereq: CSC 5800 or 3200. Basic concepts; topics include: recursive problem solving, knowledge representation using semantic networks and frames, state space search methods, planning and problem solving, game playing and adversarial search methods, rules and production systems (RETE networks), constraint satisfaction techniques and applications, optimization algorithms including genetic algorithms, logic programming. Implementation in Lisp and Prolog. (Y)

6830 Computational Modeling Laboratory. Cr. 3
Prereq: CSC 5830 or consent of instructor. Practical experience in the implementation and documentation of computer models. (I)

6880 Theory of Adaptable Systems. Cr. 3
Prereq: senior or graduate standing. Formalism of adaptability theory; organization of biological and technical information processing systems in the light of adaptability theory; applications to biological computing and evolutionary programming (I)

6991 Topics in Computer Science. Cr. 1-4 (Max. 8)
Prereq: senior or graduate standing. Current topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)

7850 Artificial Neural Networks. Cr. 3
Prereq: graduate standing. Introduction to computational characteristics of the brain, single layer neural nets, multilayer nets, learning and self-organization, adaptive and associative neural processing, current implementations and applications. (I)

7860 Computer Vision. Cr.3
Prereq: CSC 6860. Low-level vision processing, use of constraints in visual processing, three-dimensional object recognition, dynamic scene analysis, model-based vision systems, use of neural and fuzzy logic methods in vision. (Y)

7870 Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics. Cr.3
Prereq: CSC 6870. Advanced modeling techniques; object hierarchy; interaction techniques; visual realism; visualization of scientific data; animation; graphics processor architecture. (B)

7880 AdvancedTopics in NaturalComputing. Cr.3
Prereq: CSC 5880 or consent of instructor. Molecular and neuromolecular computer design, review of implementation technologies, domain applicability of different modes of computing, brain models. (B)

8880 Seminar in Natural Computing and Adaptability Theory. Cr. 3 (Max. 6, M.S.; max. 12, Ph.D.)
Prereq: CSC 6880 or 7880 or consent of instructor. Discussion of current research in the field. (B)