Week 14: Bioinformatics and computational biology
Course Material
- Week 1: NucleicAcids: DNA-circular and superhelical DNA
- Week 2: Renaturation, hybridization, sequencing of nucleic acids
- Week 3: synthesis of DNA, Central Dogma Proteins
- Week 4: Basic features of protein molecules. Folding of polypeptide chain
- Week 5: α-helical and β-secondary structures; Protein purification and sequencing
- Week 6: Transcription: Enzymatic synthesis of RNA, transcriptional signals Translation: The genetic code
- Week 7: The Wobbling, polycistronic and monocistronic RNA. Overlapping genes. Gene regulation in Eukaryotes
- Week 8: Differences in genetic organization and prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Regulation of transcription, initiation, regulation of RNA processing,
- Week 9: Mid Term Examinations
- Week 10: regulation of nucleocytoplasmic mRNA transport , regulation of translation, regulation of protein activity
- Week 11: Plant Genomics: Transcriptomics; DNA libraries, their construction, and screening and application
- Week 12: Microarray of gene technology and its application in functional genomics. Proteomics: Structural and functional proteomics
- Week 13: Methods to study proteomics Metabolomics, importance and application of metabolomics
- Week 14: Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Week 15: Levels, scope, potential and industrial application of bioinformatics
- Week 16: computational biology,
- Week 17: Docking
- Week 18: Final Term examinations
- Chapters 18
- Department Botany
- Teacher
Dr. Aamir Ali
