Firas Khatib

faculty

Firas Khatib, PhD

Associate Professor

Computer & Information Science

Research Website

508-999-8265

508-999-9144

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Dion 307A

Education

2008University of California Santa Cruz, CAPhD in Bioinformatics
2001University of California Berkeley, CABA in Applied Mathematics

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Advanced coverage of computational approaches used in bioinformatics. The course focuses on algorithmic challenges in analyzing molecular sequences, structures, and functions. It covers the following topics: Sequence comparison, assembly and annotation. Phylogenetic analysis. RNA secondary structure. Protein structure comparison, prediction, and docking. Microarrays, clustering, and classification. Genome, Hapmap, SNPs, and phenotypes. Proteomics and protein identification. Determining protein function and metabolic pathways.
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Research

Research interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Citizen Science
  • Computational Biology
  • Distributed Computing
  • Protein Structure Determination/Prediction & Design

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