Fundamentals and Applications of Bioinformatics
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Fundamentals and Applications of Bioinformatics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Fundamentals and Applications of Bioinformatics (subject code 3150407) as prescribed for Biotech · Semester 5 divides the course into 4 units, covering 31 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3150407)Unit 1 Module 1
- 1 A word on Bioinformatics ( Introduction
- branches and scopes) [1] 1 3% 2 Bioinformatics: Applications and Research
- Present Bioinformatics Scenario in India [2]
Unit 2 10%
- 3 Databases in Bioinformatics: An Introduction [1] 1 4 Biological Sequence Databases (NCBI
- PIR 2 GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Engineering Subject Code: 3150407 w.e.f
- AY 2018-19 etc) [1] 5 Protein 3D Structure (PDB
- MMDB, CDD, Gene3D) and Classifications Databases (CATH
Unit 3 28%
- 6 Data Searches and Pairwise Alignments (Dot Plots
- Simple Alignments
- Scoring Matrices
- Dynamic Programming: The Needleman and Wunsch Algorithm
- Global and Local Alignments
- Databases Searches
- Multiple Sequence Alignments) [3] 7 Sequence Alignments (PAM
- BLOSUM Heuristic methods) [1] 2 8 Alignment of Multiple Sequences and methods of multiple sequence alignment
- Phylogenetic Analysis
- Hidden Markov Models [4] 9 Molecular phylogeny (Phenotypic and Molecular Phylogeny
- molecular clocks and methods of phylogenetic analysis
- reliability of phylogenetic analysis) [1] 10 Molecular Viewers (RasMol and PDBViewer) [1] 1
Unit 4 26%
- 11 Gene identification and prediction (Introduction
- Basis of Gene Prediction
- Pattern Recognition
- Gene prediction Methods
- Other Gene Prediction Tools) 12 Gene Expression and Microarrays (Introduction
- Working with DNA Microarrays
- Clustering Gene Expression Profiles
- Data Sources and Tools for Microarray Analysis
- Applications of Microarray Technology) [4] 13 Protein Structure prediction and Modeling (secondary structure prediction
- protein modeling
- function prediction) [1] Evolution of protein structure and function and their relationship
- GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Engineering Subject Code: 3150407 w.e.f
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