Courses > Semester 8

Bioinformatics

Course Outline

  • Computational Approaches to Biological Processes:
    • Cellular Structures
    • Genome Decoding and Systematic Analysis
    • Gene Regulation
    • Phylogeny
    • Clinical and Biological Databases
  • Computational Applications:
    • Managing and Analyzing DNA sequences
    • Sequence Alignment
    • Building Phylogenetic Trees
    • Biological Structure Analysis and Prediction
    • Gene Network Analysis
  • Computational Techniques:
    • Stochastic Framework
    • Hidden Markov Models
    • Artificial Neural Networks
    • Genetic Algorithms

Laboratory Exercises

  • Biological Databases: Design and Management
  • Protein Databases: Query, Management and Processing
  • DNA Databases
  • DNA Sequence Analysis
  • Protein Sequence Analysis
  • Homology Detection in Biological Sequences
  • Multiple Sequence Alignment
  • Analysis of 3-D Protein Structures
  • RNA Processing and Analysis
  • Building Phylogenetic Trees

Evolutionary Biology