Certification Programmes in Bioinformatics

The Course modules contains

⦁ Introduction to Bioinformatics
⦁ Scope of bioinformatics: genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics.
⦁ Key databases: NCBI, Ensembl, UniProt.
⦁ Reading: Introduction to bioinformatics textbooks.

⦁ Sequence Analysis
⦁ Sequence alignment: BLAST, ClustalW.
⦁ Phylogenetic analysis and tree construction.
⦁ Practical: Run BLAST on a DNA sequence.

⦁ Genomics and Transcriptomics
⦁ Analyzing NGS data: RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq.
⦁ Tools: Bioconductor, Galaxy, DESeq2.
⦁ Practical: Analyze an RNA-Seq dataset for differential expression.

⦁ Structural Bioinformatics
⦁ Protein structure prediction and visualization (PyMOL, Chimera).
⦁ Molecular docking basics.
⦁ Practical: Visualize a protein structure using PyMOL.

⦁ Programming and Data Management
⦁ Python and R for bioinformatics.
⦁ Data visualization and pipeline automation.
⦁ Practical: Write a Python script to parse a FASTA file.