COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Paper Code: 
DZOL 814P
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

 

DZOL 814P

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

The students will be able to-

 

CO1: Get hands-on practice of

various microscopic techniques oculometery, centrifugation and UV - visible spectroscopy.

CO2: Retrieve information from  biological databases along with the submission of sequences into the databases using BLAST & FASTA.

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Class test

Semester end examinations,

Quiz

Assignments

Presentation

Individual and group projects

 

Bioinformatics

Accessing biological databases

Retrieval of nucleotide and protein sequences from the databases.

To perform pair-wise alignment of sequences (BLAST) and interpret the output.

 

Biological tools and techniques

Microscopes

Standardization of Occulometer and measurements of tubular diameter, cell heights.

Measurement of diameter of thyroid follicles.

To study the structure & function of Centrifuge.

To study the principle of UV & visible light spectroscopy

 

Biostatistics

To learn graphical representations of statistical data with the help of computers

(e.g. MS Excel) and bar diagram, frequency polygon, histogram, pie chart.

Hands-on practice of SPSS software.           

Essential Readings: 

SUGGESTED READINGS

  • Ghosh Z and Mallick B. (2008). Bioinformatics: Principles and Applications, Oxford University Press.

  • Pevsner J. (2009). Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, II Edition, Wiley Blackwell.

  • Zvelebil, Marketa and Baum O. Jeremy (2008). Understanding Bioinformatics, Garland Science, Taylor and Francis Group, USA.

  • Zar, Jerrold H. (1999). Biostatistical Analysis, IV Edition, Pearson Education Inc and Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc. USA

  • Antonisamy, B., Christopher S. and Samuel, P. P. (2010). Biostatistics: Principles and Practice. Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, India.

  • Pagana, M. and Gavreau, K. (2000). Principles of Biostatistics, Duxberry Press, USA

  • Wilson and Walker. Practical Biochemistry. Cambridge, 2000.

  • Cooper. The Cell-A Molecular Approach. ASM, 1997

 

e-RESOURCES:

JOURNALS:

 

  • Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. ISSN (print): 0219-7200 | ISSN (online): 1757-6334.
  • BMC Bioinformatics, Publisher: BioMed Central ltd. ISSN: 1471-2105.
 
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