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This course reviews a variety of quantitative tools commonly applied in biological research. The course is divided into three sections. The first section covers dynamical modeling of biological processes, with an emphasis on chemical kinetics and cell signaling. The second section is devoted to statistical tools used to analyze datasets, as well as techniques to reduce data complexity and clustering. The third section applies the learned statistical tools to image processing, as well as commonly used techniques to process and extract features from images. Students will learn the quantitative concepts during lecture and discussion, and apply these concepts in lab sections where they will use MATLAB to apply the learned tools to biological problems.