BCH719: Bioinformatics Resources 6 credits (40-5-15)

Objectives

To provide an in-depth study of critical bioinformatics resources and their impacts on experimental design in the molecular biosciences and life sciences product discovery pipeline.

Contents

A review of sequence databases; specialised databases skewed towards tropical medicine and agriculture; Advanced sequence analyses; Plylogenetics and molecular epidemiology; Genome projects; The Human Genome; A review of hot topics selected by instructor.