Course Contents

Introduction; bio-computing; biological databases - types and retrieval of nucleic acid (or genomic) or protein sequence information; sequence alignment - pairwise, multiple; phylogenetics; in silico identification of protein motifs and domains; structural bioinformatics of proteins and RNAs including protein modeling and prediction of their interactions with other proteins and small molecules; identification of genes and promoter regions within genomes; networks; strategies for whole genome sequencing and assembly

Course Synopsis

the course focus on using bioinformatic tools for biological data mining from online databases.

Course Learning Outcomes

To familiarize students with biological data mining from online databases and the use of various bioinformatics tools for extracting and processing biological data.