Bioinformatics

Course name

Bioinformatics

Code

CS3210O1

Class	Undergraduate, 2008 - 2011					Package	5
Level	Licenţă	Year	3	Semester	2	Status	Optional

Hours per week				Total hours per semester	Total hours of individual work	Credits	Evaluation type	Teaching language
C	S	L	Pr
2	0	2	0	48	168	5	P	ro

Taught by	Academic and scientific title, name
	Associate Professor, PhD, Liviu Ciortuz

Required courses

Objectives	Understanding the basic technics in the analysis of genetic sequences
General thematics	Fundamental notions in molecular biology Alignment of pairs of DNA/protein sequences Multiple alignment of DNA/protein sequences Phylogenetics Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) Alignment of pairs of DNA/protein sequences using pair-HMMs Multiple alignment of DNA/protein sequences using profile-HMMs Analysis of RNA sequences Motif in identification in genetic sequences
Seminary / Laboratory thematics	Solving exercises and problems Implementation of some of the presented algorithms and their applications Presentation of recent papers in the area of bioinformatics
Teaching methods	Slides on video-projector

Bibliography

"Biological Sequence Analysis'', Richard Durbin, Sean Eddy, Anders Krogh, Graeme Mitchison; Cambridge University Press, 1998
"Problems and Solutions in Biological Sequence Analysis", Borodovsky, Ekisheva, Cambridge University Press, 2006
"Theory and Mathematical Methods in Bioinformatics", Shyiy Shen, Jack Tuszynski, Springer, 2008
"An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms", Neil Jones & Pavel Pevzner; MIT Press, 2004
"Computational Genomics", Nello Cristianini, Matthew Hahn, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Evaluation	conditions
	criterias
	modes
	formula	Basis (1 point) + 1st written work (4.5 points) + 2nd written work (4.5 points)

Faculty of
Computer Science