Individuals with skills in bioinformatics are, today, keenly sought by biotechnology industry and academia to derive forward research and development in many areas of biology. Aim of this course is to provide up-to-date biological information and use of computer methods/databases for the generation, storage, analysis and interpretation of this information, to the students.
Course Contents:
Introduction to bioinformatics: basic principles of computing and bioinformatics; collecting and storing sequence data in laboratory; alignment of pairs of sequences and multiple sequence alignments; phylogenetic analysis of homologous sequences; database searches for similar sequences; structural bioinfromatics; predicting secondary structure from protein sequences; gene prediction; proteomics data analysis; bioinformatics in pharmaceutical industry.
Course Impacts:
After studying this course, students will be able to appreciate the enormous contribution of bioinformatics in the studies of biological diversity, evolution etc. and they would be in a position to use various computer databases which have allowed the generation, storage and analysis of biological data required to study complex biological problems, independently.
