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About the course
About the course
Dear Learners welcome to the Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) - Bioinformatics (BBCS-185). This is a 4-credit theory course offered in the fourth semester of the B.Sc. (Hons.) Biochemistry programme. The major aim of this course is to inculcate basic skills pertaining to bioinformatics. You have already studied the fundamentals of bioinformatics in unit 11 of course proteins (BBCCT-105) in your second semester. In this course, you shall learn more tools and applications of bioinformatics, also known as computational biology.
This course is broadly divided into 3 theory units and 10 practical or hands-on exercises. We have arranged the content in a way that, will provide you theoretical background on the topics followed by hands-on experience through exercises.
Self Learning Material
Self Learning Material
BBCS-185.pdfBBCH-185 (English)
BBCS-185 Hindi April 2022.pdfBBCH-185 (Hindi)
This is one of the stand alone course in your program that majorly involves the utilization of computer skills. Owing to this, we have designed a few exercises where you will learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Office, frequently used internet-based terminology, and their applications. All the Software’s, tools and applications described in this course are freely available on the internet. Hence, it is advised that you should go through the course content and watch the corresponding video links provided and also follow the instructions given to perform the exercises. Thorough understanding of this course will help in building your career in the field of computational biology. Since, bioinformatics is one of the emerging fields of allied sciences, researchers from various disciplines starting from Mathematics, Physics, both basic and applied biologists, Computer scientists, and Statisticians contributed to the development of this subject. Bioinformatics subject has vast applications in the field of Medicine, Pharmacy with special emphasis on drug design and development.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Expected Learning Outcomes
After completing this course you should be able to:
define the basic terminology frequently used in the field of bioinformatics;
explain the applications of Microsoft Office;
create and use email;
browse the desired data from the existing search engines;
perform activities like exploring biological databases and retrieving the information present in them;
distinguish between different biological databases;
access the protein and DNA sequences from online resources;
download and use the various file formats for the purpose of performing bioinformatics exercises;
describe and perform sequence alignment; and
enlist to the applications of bioinformatics.
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