Syllabus:

• Bioinformatics
  

  1. Data Model (Annotations, Sequin, GenBank Formats, Abstract Syntax Notation (ASN)

  2. DNA and Protein Sequence Databases (GenBank, GenPept, GDB, PIR, SWISS-PROT, EBI, PDB, MMDB)

  3. Database Search Methods (Heuristic Alignment Algorithms, Global Sequence Alignments, Local Sequence Alignments)

  4. Sequence Motifs (Multiple Alignments, PSI-BLAST, BLOCKS, PSSM, PROSITE)

  5. Gene Prediction and Identification of CDS (Grail, HMMgene, MZEF, GENSCAN)

  6. Protein Structure Prediction and Visualization (RasMol, Chime and Cn3D)

  7. Phylogenetic Analysis

  8. Biostatistics, MicroArray and Proteomics Data Mining

  1. Homogeneous Poisson Process and Distribution

  2. Hypothesis Testing: Bayesian Methods, Classical Methods, Bootstrap Methods

  3. Dynamic Programming

  4. FASTA and BLAST Alignment Scoring

  5. Data Normalization

  6. Clustering Methods

• Information Technology
  

  1. UNIX

  2. Oracle

  3. Perl

  4. BioPerl

  5. CGI

  6. Perl DBI

  7. Web Design

• Project