Syllabus

Course Code: IN-BTY-608    Course Name: Bioinformatics-Practicals

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 1. Types & Examples of Biological Databases (Primary and Secondary), their URLs and Major functions.
2 2. NCBI (PubMed, Nucleotide): Literature search and Data retrieval. (How to do literature search using NCBI’s PubMed & Data retrieval of a gene using NCBI’s Nucleotide database).
3 3. Download Human Haemoglobin gene from NCBI database in GenBank and FASTA format.
4 4. Using NCBI Nucleotide database, search and download FASTA file of a Human gene (e.g. BRCA1), run BLAST at NCBI website.
5 5. Global alignment: Make scoring matrix of these two sequences, ACGGCTC & ATGGCCTC using values as match= +1, mismatch= -3, gap penality= -4.
6 6. How to run BLAST software (Nucleotide BLAST, blastx, tblastn, Protein BLAST) and their uses.
7 7. Run ClustalW for Multiple sequence alignment of three human proteins.
8 8. Phylogenetic tree construction using PHYLIP program.
9 9. Prokaryotic gene finding using GLIMMER, Eukaryotic by GENSCAN program.
10 10. Major steps of Eukaryotic Genome Assembly (Whole Genome Assembly).
11 11. Protein structure prediction by HMM profile (sequence) based method.
12 12. To perform prosite for domain perdiction
13 13. To perform Pfam for motif prediction
14 14. To perform RNA FOLD for rna structure prediction
15 15. To perform jpred
16 16. To perform GENSCAN
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