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them;
 Identify the principles of DNA replication, transcription and translation and explain how they relate to
each other.
 Discuss clearly about gene organization and mechanisms of control the gene expression in various
organisms.
 Gain knowledge about the basic principle of translation.
 Gain knowledge on gene expression.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Friefelder, David. ―Molecular Biology.‖ Narosa Publications, 1999
2. Weaver, Robert F. ―Molecular Biology‖ IInd Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2003.
3. Karp, Gerald ―Cell and Molecular Biology : Concepts and Experiments‖ IVth Edition, John Wiley, 2005.
4. Friefelder, David and George M. Malacinski ―Essentials of Molecular Biology‖ IInd Edition, Panima
Publishing, 1993.

REFERENCES
1. Tropp, Burton E. ―Molecular Biology: Genes to Proteins‖. IIIrd Edition. Jones and Bartlett, 2008.
2. Glick, B.R. and J.J. Pasternak. ―Molecular Biotechnology : Principles and Applications of
Recombinant DNA‖ 4th Edition. ASM, 2010.

BT17504 BIOINFORMATICS L T P C
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OBJECTIVES:
The course aims to help students become comfortable using biological databases and bioinformatics
techniques to solve biotechnological problem.

UNIT I 9
Introduction to Operating systems, Linux commands, File transfer protocols ftp and telnet, Introduction to
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biological sequences, Biological databases, Genome specific
databases, Data file formats, Data life cycle, Database management system models, Basics of Structured
Query Language (SQL).
UNIT II 9
Sequence Analysis, Pair wise alignment, Dynamic programming algorithms for computing edit distance,
string similarity, shotgun DNA sequencing, end space free alignment. Multiple sequence alignment,
Algorithms for Multiple sequence alignment, Generating motifs and profiles, Local and Global alignment,
Needleman and Wunsch algorithm, Smith Waterman algorithm, BLAST, PSIBLAST and PHIBLAST
algorithms.

UNIT III 9
Introduction to phylogenetics, Distance based trees UPGMA trees, Molecular clock theory, Ultrametric trees,
Parsimonious trees, Neighbour joining trees, trees based on morphological traits, Bootstrapping. Protein
Secondary structure and tertiary structure prediction methods, Homology modeling, abinitio approaches,
Threading, Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction, Structural genomics.

UNIT IV 9
Machine learning techniques: Artificial Neural Networks in protein secondary structure prediction, Hidden
Markov Models for gene finding, Decision trees, Support Vector Machines. Introduction to Systems Biology
and Synthetic Biology, Microarray analysis, DNA computing, Bioinformatics approaches for drug discovery,
Applications of informatics techniques in genomics and proteomics: Assembling the genome, STS content
mapping for clone contigs, Functional annotation, Peptide mass fingerprinting.

UNIT V 9
R programming language, input/output, control flow, file handling, different statistical functions and
packages for biological data analysis eg: microarray data.

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