Bioinformatics Biostatistics

AY2014/2015 Semester 2

Topics covered will be pairwise and multiple sequence alignment, searching for homologous sequences, phylogenetic analysis, searching for protein coding regions, predicting elementary protein structure, clustering 3D molecular structures and protein-protein interaction. Practical Perl computer language is introduced. Biostatistics part will cover descriptive statistics, data summary using statistical indices and diagrams, probability and probability distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis-testing, basic tests of significance involving means, proportions, measurement of relationships between variables using correlation and regression and non-parametrics methods. Course work consists of lectures, and extensive computer practices.