Certificate Courses

 

Basic Bioinformatics

Course duration: 

  1. 30 days
  2. 45 days

Introduction to Bioinformatics and overview of Biological Research
Biological databases and database searching
Data Mining and Sequence Retrieval
Pair wise and Multiple Sequence Alignment
Genomics and Proteomics
Similarity and homology searching by using Bioinformatics tools
Gene prediction and determination of open reading frame
Prediction of non-coding transcripts
Finding regulatory elements in DNA sequence
Expressed sequence tags
Protein structure, classification and prediction
Prediction of protein function
Inferring phylogenetic relationships from sequence data
Visualization tools
Other relevant Confirmatory Tools

 

Advance Bioinformatics:  Genes, Proteins and computer

Course Duration: 90 days

Introduction to Bioinformatics and overview of Biological Research
Molecular Evolution
Gene finding
Sequence comparison methods
Amino acid residue conservation.
Bioinformatics of protein sequence, structure, classification and prediction
Protein structure comparison.
Protein as catalysts: enzyme structure, kinetics, and mechanism
Protein-biomolecular interaction
Protein structure to function.
Inferring phylogenetic relationships from protein sequence data
Evolution of protein structure and function
Experimental use of DNA arrays
Mining gene expression data.
Data management of biological information.
Biological Databases
Protein folding and design
Proteomics and system biology
Data management of biological information.
Medical informatics
Visualization tools
Molecular Modelling and Simulation of protein molecules
Other relevant Confirmatory Tools
Perl in Bioinformatics.
C-programming and Bioinformatics.

Advance Microbial Biotechnology

Course Duration: 60 days
Basics of Enzyme technology and importance of biocatalysts in different metabolic pathways.
Isolation of micro-organisms (Bacteria and Fungi) from serial dilution.
Study of Colony morphology (Bacteria).
Pure culture preparation (Bacteria and Fungi).
Sterilization techniques.
Morphological characterization of Fungi.
Screening for enzyme production

  • Starch hydrolysis
  • Casein hydrolysis

Identification of bacteria by Gram Staining.
Identification of fungi by lactophenol cotton blue staining.
Biochemical characterization
Antibiotic sensitivity test for bacteria.
In vitro production of enzymes.

Course Duration: 180 days

Introductory Bioinformatics& overview of Biological Research with Bioinformatics
Molecular Evolution
Gene finding
Pairwise and Multiple Sequence analysis (BLAST, FASTA and CLUSTAL W)
Motif and Domain Assignments
Phylogenetic Analysis in Bioinformatics
Amino acid residue conservation
Function prediction from protein sequence
Protein structure comparison
Molecular Biology concepts, Biological databases & Database Searching
Bioinformatics & Functional Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Structural Proteomics
Bioinformatics & Expression proteomics
Protein-Biomolecular interactions
Experimental use of DNA arrays
Comparative Modeling
Rational Drug Design
Visualization Tools, Drug Targeting & Design
Lead design and optimization
Computer simulations Studies
Basics of DNA Extraction procedures
Isolation of DNA from plant tissue and animal tissue
Agarose gel-electrophoresis
SDS-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE)

GEL ELECTROPHORESIS TECHNIQUES

Course Duration: 7 days.

Isolation of DNA from natural source
Agarose gel electrophoresis
SDS-Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

Microbial Biotechnology

Course Duration: 7-10 days
Basics of Enzyme technology and importance of biocatalyst in different metabolic pathways.
Isolation of micro-organisms from soil, water and air by serial dilutions.
Study of colony morphology.
Pure culture preparation.
Screening for enzyme production.
Identification of bacteria by Gram Staining.
In vitro production of enzymes.
Salt precipitation of enzymes.
Enzyme assay.
Immobilization of Enzyme.