ISEM 521 - Life Science for IT Professionals

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course provides an ample spectrum of basic topics such as life science fundamentals, gradually leading to introduction to the interface between automation/IT applications for several fields of such as medicine, diagnostics, medical devices, agriculture, environment, food, pharmaceutics, and Nanobiotechnology. These topics allow the student to be introduced to an area of specialization in IT support, bioinformatics research or programming applications for the life sciences industry. The course starts with an overview of essential concepts of biological systems and proceeds to the structures and functions cellular macromolecules, particularly nucleic acids and proteins directly involved in storage and retrieval of biological information. After building a sound introduction to the basics of the living system, the course introduces the interface between these basic structures and applications of information technology to a variety of fields of applied life science.