Bioinformatics Biostatistics

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.