BIO8212 Experimental Bioinformatics (FOSCI)

Units 1.0 (Biological Sciences) Band 6

Synopsis

Experimental Bioinformatics brings together the fields of life science, computer science and mathematics. Students will be involved in the development and application of current computational technologies for storing, extracting, organizing, analysing and interpreting complex biological information. The course will provide advanced practical experience in DNA and protein sequence analysis including the searching of DNA, protein and nucleic acid databases using homology-based and pattern-based search algorithms, as well as sequence comparisons and alignments and evolutionary analysis. Students will develop skills in interfacing with and retrieving information from sequence and genome databases. Methods of gene expression analysis will also be investigated in the context of personalised medical diagnostics.