I617 Informatics in Life Sciences and Chemistry

I617 INFORMATICS IN LIFE SCIENCES AND CHEMISTRY is a 3CH graduate course aimed at introducing non-life science students to the fundamental informatics techniques in bioinformatics and chemical informatics. It is taught by Haixu Tang and David Wild.

COURSE TOPICS

The following topics will be covered in the course:

Introduction to the course

Fundamentals of bioinformatics (Haixu Tang)
  - genome sequencing and annotation
  - genome information system
  - DNA microarray and gene expression
  - SNPs and genome variation
  - protein families
  - visualization of biomolecular structures

Fundamentals of chemical informatics (David Wild)
  - representation & use of 2D and 3D chemical structures
  - chemical databases
  - application of computational techniques in drug design
  - available web resources for chemoinformatics
  - molecular modeling and 3D visualization

Advanced topics
  - programming information systems in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics
  - machine learning and optimization techniques
  - graph theoretical approaches
  - emerging trends in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics
  - integration of bioinformatics, chemoinformatics and genomics
  - social and human aspects of bio- and chemo-informatics
  - techniques for handling and analyzing large volumes of chemical information
  - careers in bioinformatics and chemoinformatics
  - guest lectures by experienced practitioners in bio- and chemo- informatics

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