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BIOcoretheorySem 3

BIOINFORMATICS

BIO 3121

Syllabus

  • 01Bioinformatics overview
  • 02Computational biology and bioinformatics
  • 03The digital code of life
  • 04Introduction to biological sequence databases
  • 05The evolutionary basis of sequence alignment
  • 06Detecting ORFs
  • 07protein Vs nucletotide sequence alignment
  • 08Global and Local alignments
  • 09Substitution Matrices
  • 10Gaps and Gap penalties
  • 11Dynamic programming algorithm
  • 12Statistical and Biological significance
  • 13Introduction to computational biology
  • 14Multiple Sequence Alignment
  • 15sequence assembly: Overlap-Layout-Consensus approach
  • 16Repetitive elements, assembly issues
  • 17PCR Primer Design
  • 18Gene finding
  • 19Graph theory; chemical graphs and amino acid comparisons
  • 20Hierarchial levels of macromolecules
  • 21Special structures of nucleic acids, Motifs and domains
  • 22symmetry of proteins
  • 23HP-lattice model
  • 24Secondary structure
  • 25Molecular visualization
  • 26Protein structure-function relationships
  • 27Protein modeling
  • 28Structure validation
  • 29Evolution; Morphology based cladogram
  • 30Building Phylogenetic Trees
  • 31Phylogenetic Networks
  • 32Bioinformatics: future aspects

References

  • David W Mount. 2004. BIOINFORMATICS: Sequence and Genome Analysis. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
  • Andreas D Baxevanis, Gary D. Bader, David S. Wishart. 4th Edn, 2020. BIOINFORMATICS. Wiley Interscience.
Credits Structure
3Lecture
0Tutorial
0Practical
3Total