BIIN450

Advanced Bioinformatics, capstone course of B.S. in Bioinformatics curriculum, is designed to provide top level undergraduate education/training in Bioinformatics and associated tools. Students will further their knowledge of the latest computation techniques for management and analysis of biological information. Students will also be familiarized with current issues in Genomics and Proteomics and will be taught to design solutions for problems in these fields. Important algorithms behind various computational methods will be discussed and compared. Some of the topics to be covered in this course are: Molecular Sequence Comparisons, Multiple Sequence Alignments, Homology Modeling, Molecular Modeling, Bio-Molecular Database Design, Comparative Genome and Gene Expression Analysis, Gene Predictions, Structure/Function Predictions, Phylogenetic Predictions, Use of Data Mining and Automating Data Analysis. Training will be provided for the use of GUI and command based Bioinformatics software. PERL will be introduced to facilitate biological analysis.