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ABS-932 Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Campus ASAB
Programs PG
Session Fall Semester 2016
Course Title Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Course Code ABS-932
Credit Hours 3
Pre-Requisutes None
Course Objectives
  • This course educates and develops skills in students who desire to work to solve problems related to genomics and proteomics by using bioinformatics tools.
  • Offers students an opportunity to practice accessing and using online databases to engage in real-time discoveries using the same approach current scientist’s use in their own research.
  • Focuses on the process of doing genomic analysis and thinking from a genomics perspective.
Detail Content
  • Introduction to genomics
    • Gene Expression Gene-chips/Microarrays, Technical methodology and analyses of microarray data; brief overview of proteomics
  • How genomes are annotated
    • Use of Genomics in biomedicine Mutations, alleles and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), Genetic testing
  • Overview of genomics projects
    • Genome analysis Bioinformatics, Data-mining, Prediction of open reading frames, Characteristic sequence features, and regulatory sequences; Familiarity with whole genome browsers
  • Proteomics, Trancommentomics, Metabolomics, Protein structures and function
  • Molecular phylogeny and evolution, Gene Finding and Sequence Annotation
  • Bioinformatics for Cancer Genomics, Homology modeling
  • Predicting Protein Structure and Function from Sequence
  • Data mining, Applications of bioinformatics
  • Ethical, social and philosophical considerations
    • The Ultimate Genomic Phenotype- Death, Aging and the hidden costs for a prolonged life, Patent Law and Genomics, Genetically Modified Organisms
    Text/Ref Books
    • Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics by James Tisdall. O'Reilly. 2001.
    • Learning Perl - Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, brian d foy. O'Reilly. 2008.
    • The processes of life an introduction to molecular biology by Lawrence Hunter. MIT Press, 2009.
    • Essential Cell Biology by Alberts et al. Garland Science. 3rd Edition.
    • Molecular biology of the cell by Bruce Alberts et al. Garland Science. 5th Edition.
    • Bioinformatics edited by Paul H. Dear. Method Express, 2007.
    • Discovering Genomics, Proteomics, & Bioinformatics by A. Malcolm Campbell and Laurie J. Heyer. Pearson. 2nd Edition, 2007.
    • Genomics, Proteomics, & Bioinformatics by Campbell and Heyer
      Time Schedule
      Faculty/Resource Person Assistant Professor – Dr. Sadia Zahid (PhD)