Details of ID4111 (Autumn 2012)

Level: 4 Type: Theory Credits: 3.0

Course CodeCourse NameInstructor(s)
ID4111 Bioinformatics Anirban Banerjee,
Shree Prakash Pandey

Syllabus
Bioinformatics





SYLLABUS



DNA AND AMINO ACID SEQUENCES: FEATURE EXTRACTION, ALIGNMENT AND INFERENCES

Exploration of biological features; exploration of quantitative characteristics; alignment algorithms (Needleman-Wunsch, Smith-Waterman, BLAST); algorithms for determination of higher order structure



EVOLUTIONARY INFERENCE FROM SEQUENCE DATA: ESTIMATING RATES OF EVOLUTION

Jukes and Cantor model; Kimura's two-parameter model; Tajima and Nei's method;



BIOINFORMATICS APPROACHES TO OMICS ANALYSIS



Exploration of trends in high-throughput data using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and hierarchical clustering; differential gene expression using moderated t-tests and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC); Gene set (pathway) enrichment analysis; exploration of correlation gene networks



METHODS OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGICAL INFERENCE





References
RECOMMENDED TEXT



1. Biological Sequence analysis by Durbin, Eddy, Krogh, Mitchison (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

2. Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution by Dan Graur and Wen-Hsiung Li (Sinauer, 2000, Second Edition).

3. Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis by David W Mount (Cold Spring Laboratory Press 2004, Second Edition).



Course Credit Options

Sl. No.ProgrammeSemester NoCourse Choice
1 IP 1 Not Allowed
2 IP 3 Not Allowed
3 MS 7 Not Allowed
4 RS 1 Not Allowed