BIOL 3263 Introduction to Bioinformatics
Course Description
This course introduces students to bioinformatics tools and methods. It provides the conceptual background for using bioinformatics tools and application methods and offers skills and training on computational molecular biology and related fields. It gives an understanding about major advances in the analysis of genomes, sequences and their structures and also critically discusses the strength and limitations of the methods. The lecture component of this course provides the necessary conceptual backing and the practical component provides assignments for utilizing bioinformatics tools. Problem-based learning methods would be employed to teach the utility of bioinformatics tools. Teaching approaches include lectures, tutorials and lab sessions. Topics include (but not limited to) bioinformatics databases, sequence and structure alignment, protein structure prediction, protein folding, protein-protein interaction, simulation, and molecular dynamics.
