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CSE-876 BIOCHEMISTRY
Campus RCMS
Programs PG
Session Fall Semester 2016
Course Title BIOCHEMISTRY
Course Code CSE-876
Credit Hours 3
Pre-Requisutes None
Course Objectives
  • This course aims to provide understandings of basic concepts in chemistry, biology and computer science.
  • To standardize the intake of students in Computational Biology stream.
  • To cope with the challenges found in Computational drug design CS&E 873 and Advanced computational biology CS&E---- courses.
Detail Content
  • Chemical Functional Groups, Chemical Bonding
  • Hydrogen bonding, Partial Charges, IUPAC Nomenclature
  • Stereochemistry, Proteins, Enzymes
  • Instrumental methods of Analysis
  • Computational theories
Course Outcomes
  • After completing this course students will be able to understand both chemical and biological aspects of drug protein interaction, their structures and nomenclature.
Text/Ref Books
  • Biochemistry by Richard Harvey and Denise Ferrier, 5th edition, published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
  • Biochemistry by Reginald H. Garrett and Charles M. Grisham, 4th edition, Mary Finch Publishers, Bosten, USA.
  • Introduction to general organic and biochemistry by Morris Hein, Scott Pattison and Susan Arena, published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
  • Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry by Stephen J. Lippard and Jeremy M. Berg, 1994, University Science Books, Mill Valley, CA.
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry, A Short Course by Rosette M. Roat-Malone, 2nd edition, 2007, published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
  • Essentials of Computational Chemistry 2nd edition theories and models by Christopher J. Cramer, published by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, England.
Time Schedule
Faculty/Resource Person Assistant Professor - Dr Uzma Habib