FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOINFORMATICS

COURSE LAYOUT

Weeks Weekly Lecture TopicsWeek 1 Day 1 Module 1: Origin, History, and Scope of BioinformaticsDay 2 Module 2: Importance and Use of BioinformaticsDay 3 Module 3: Applications of BioinformaticsDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 2 Day 1 Module 4: IT in teaching, Learning and ResearchDay 2 Module 5: Open Access Bibliographic ResourcesDay 3 Module 6: Basic Concepts of Copyrights and PatentsDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 3 Day 1 Module 7: Central Dogma and Emergence of Omics TechnologiesDay 2 Module 8: Genomics and TranscriptomicsDay 3 Module 9: Proteomics and MetabolomicsDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 4 Day 1 Module 10: Introduction to Biological DatabasesDay 2 Module 11: Sequence and Structural DatabasesDay 3 Module 12: Functional and Other DatabasesDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 5 Day 1 Module 13: Basic Concepts of Sequence Similarity and IdentityDay 2 Module 14: File Formats for SequencesDay 3 Module 15: Sequence – Patterns and ProfilesDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 6 Day 1 Module 16: Scoring MatricesDay 2 Module 17: Sequence – Pairwise alignmentsDay 3 Module 18: Multiple Sequence AlignmentsDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 7 Day 1 Module 19: GenBankDay 2 Module 20: BLASTDay 3 Module 21: Protein Data Bank (PDB)Day 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 8 Day 1 Module 22: Taxonomy and PhylogenyDay 2 Module 23: Phylogenetics – MethodsDay 3 Module 24: Phylogenetics – ToolsDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 9 Day 1 Module 25: Molecular ModellingDay 2 Module 26: Molecular visualization – Rasmol and PymolDay 3 Module 27: Molecular dockingDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 10 Day 1 Module 28: Definition of Drugs and its AdvancesDay 2 Module 29: Pharmacophore Identification and Novel Drug DesignDay 3 Module 30: Structure based drug designDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 11 Day 1 Module 31: DNA sequencing – Basic methodsDay 2 Module 32: Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)Day 3 Module 33: Human Genome ProjectDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 12 Day 1 Module 34: Protein structure – PrimaryDay 2 Module 35: Protein structure - SecondaryDay 3 Module 36: Protein structure - Tertiary and QuaternaryDay 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 13 Day 1 Module 37: Protein Structure PredictionDay 2 Module 38: Protein Interaction analysis
Day 3 Module 39: Gene Predication
Day 4 Interaction based on the three modules coveredDay 5 Deadline for submitting assignments
Week 14
Day 1 Module 40: Mapping Populations
Day 2 Interaction based on the module covered
Day 3 RevisionDay 4 End term assessment