Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George

CSB472H1

Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics

Prerequisite1 requirement, 2 options

Total contact hours24 lecture · 12 tutorial

Evidence1 term

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What was the average?

3 GPA across 1 observed term. Most recent: Winter 2023.

How is it graded?

Not yet verified

No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.

How confident is this?

Low

A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.

From the calendar

Official source · Faculty of Arts & Science

This course introduces the foundational principles of biological data analysis, with a strong emphasis on understanding how core bioinformatic algorithms work. Rather than focusing on tool usage or software development, this course explores the underlying concepts, strengths and limitations of key analytical methods, and the critical parameters that influence results. Topics include sequence alignment, database searching, phylogenetic reconstruction, genome annotation, gene prediction, and the analysis of gene expression data. This is not an applied bioinformatics course or a course in tool development—it is designed for students who want to understand the theory and logic behind genome-scale analyses.

Contact hours: 24 lecture · 12 tutorial; Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Any one of these

BIO230H1, or BIO255H1

Recommended preparation — not required

BIO260H1, HMB265H1, CSB352H1

The calendar advises these before taking CSB472H1. You can enrol without them.

What people actually got

Last observed Winter 2023

3 GPA

1 term observed

n = 1student contributedSt. George offerings only

This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.

The newest observation is from Winter 2023. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.

This rests on 1 reported term. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.

What we don’t have yet

Assessment weightingNo syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this offering. Contribute yours and the breakdown appears here.

A current averageThe newest verified observation is from Winter 2023. Later terms have no confirmed result yet.

Per-term breakdownHeld back deliberately. Splitting 1 observations across terms would be false precision.

Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

Archive coveragePyko holds no past paper for this course. We do not host or distribute course files in any case; the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed.

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Claim	Source	Captured	Status
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours	Faculty of Arts & Science	2026-07-25	public fact
Historical average across 1 term	Student contributions, consented	2026-07-25	user contributed aggregate

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