Chapter 2 Introduction

2.1 Brief history of bioinformatics

2.1.1 Protein structure wave

2.1.2 Gene expression wave

2.1.3 Genome sequencing wave

2.1.4 Big data challenge from sequencing

2.2 Should I take this course?

2.2.1 Bioinformatics vs computational biology

2.2.2 Is this class for me?

2.3 Course information

2.3.1 Logistics

2.3.2 X Shirley Liu lab introduction

2.4 Lab 1

2.4.1 Introduction

2.4.2 Introduction to R

2.4.3 Introduction to Bash

2.4.4 Getting started with Cannon