BIOE 365 - Computational Bioengineering

 

Class Schedule

Fall term

Tuesday  13:30 - 16:20

 

Office Hours

Tuesday  11:00 - 12:00

 

Course Objectives      

The aim of this course is to provide students an introductory knowledge and skills of computer science and computational biosciences.

 

Textbooks / References

·     "An Introduction to Computational Biochemistry", CS Tsai

·     "Introduction to Bioinformatics", AM Lesk

 

Grading Policy

Mid-term Exams : 20 % + 20 %

Homework sets : 20 %

Final Exam : 40 %

70 % attendance is required.

 

Syllabus

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Lecture Notes

Ä Introduction to computational bioengineering.

Ä Internet resources. Database retrieval. Molecular graphics.

Ä Structure of biomolecules.

Ä Purification and structural characterization of biomolecules.

Ä Biomolecular interactions. Enzymes. Metabolism.  

Ä Genomics - Nucleotide sequences and recombinant DNA.

Ä Genomics - Gene Identification.

Ä Proteomics - Sequence Analyses.  

Ä Proteomics - Phylogenetic Analysis.

 

¸ Homework - I  due on Oct.13

¸ Homework - II  due on Oct.27

¸ Homework - III  due on Nov.3

¸ Homework - IV  due on Nov.17

¸ Homework - V  due on Nov.24

¸ Homework - VI  due on Dec.1

¸ Homework - VII  due on Dec.8

¸ Homework - VIII  due on Dec.22