Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : BYF537 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : Second Cycle (Master's Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 2 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 2 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 3 |
This interdisciplinary course introduces the basic concepts and various aspects of bioinformatics such as accessing, analyzing, and interpreting biological data using NCBI databases and tools
This interdisciplinary course introduces the basic concepts and various aspects of bioinformatics such as accessing, analyzing, and interpreting biological data using NCBI databases and tools. Lectures cover sequence analysis, microarray expression analysis, Bayesian methods, control theory, scale-free networks, and biotechnology applications. The course will be useful for those non-biologists with computational and/or engineering background as well as biotechnologists
| 1. | To comprehend the definition, importance and usage areas of bioinformatics |
| 2. | To gain knowledge on the database systems and web technologies in bioinformatics |
| 3. | To gain knowledge on the usage of bioinformatic software tools |
| 4. | To gain knowledge on the alignment methods used in bioinformatic studies |
| 5. | Interdisciplinary students will be able to ask fundamental biological questions involving bioinformatics, able to perform database searches to reach the answer by applying appropriate computational tools and properly interpret the findings |
| 1. | Introduction to Bioinformatics. Arthur M. Lesk |
| 2. | Fundamental Concepts of Bioinformatics. Dan E. Krane, Michael L. Raymer |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Presentation | 1 | %2.5 |
| Assignment | 1 | %2.5 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %25 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %70 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 13 | 1 | 2 | 39 |
| Assignment | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Presentation | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Reading | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 80 | |||
PÇ-1 | PÇ-2 | PÇ-3 | PÇ-4 | PÇ-5 | PÇ-6 | PÇ-7 | PÇ-8 | PÇ-9 | PÇ-10 | PÇ-11 | PÇ-12 | PÇ-13 | PÇ-14 | PÇ-15 | PÇ-16 | PÇ-17 | PÇ-18 | |
OÇ-1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
OÇ-2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
OÇ-3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
OÇ-4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
OÇ-5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |