Applied bioinformatics

With advancements in high-throughput data generation technologies, modern biology is becoming increasingly quantitative in nature. Biologists now commonly deal with large volumes of heterogeneous data in various digital formats. Bioinformatics is the interdisciplinary field that deals with processing, analysis and management of biological information using computer science and information technologies. This unit will assist you to develop essential bioinformatics skills and focuses on the practical use of bioinformatics methods and resources for the analysis of nucleotide and protein sequences, as well as results from omics studies, with emphasis on their evolutionary underpinnings and statistical foundations. You will explore the basic concepts underlying bioinformatic algorithms for assembly, alignment and pattern finding. You will also get hands-on experience in working with data from –omics studies, and learn data type-specific methods to perform gene/protein expression analysis, clustering, network analysis and data visualization.