M.Sc. Bioinformatics - Courses & Schemes - Welcome to Banasthali University

M.Sc. (Bioinformatics)

I Semester	II Semester
1. Structural Biology	1. Data Base Management Systems*
2. Bioinformatics - I	2. Computational Biology and Molecular Modeling
3. Basic Mathematics	3. Bioinformatics –II
4. Computer Programming*	4. Data Structure & Object Oriented Programming**
5. Statistical Techniques**	5. Computer Networks & Internet Programming***
6. Seminar	6. Communication Skills
* Computer Programming in C ** Hands on Statistical analysis Tools	* Hands on DBMS Package (oracle) Implementation of data structure in C * Perl and HTML Programming

III Semester	IV Semester
1. Molecular structure prediction & Visualization*	UIL Project
2. Evolutionary Computing	(i) Reading Elective*
3. Elective-I	(ii) Project, Dissertation
4. Elective-II	(iii) Seminar
5. Project**	(iv) Continuous Assessment
* Handson Bioinformatics Package ** Software Development/Simulation Study/Analysis based on use of software tools	(v) Viva-Voce

Electives
1. Functional and Comparative Genomic
2. Computer Aided Drug Designing
3. Mining and Warehousing of Biological Data
4. Parallel and Distributed Computing
5. Pharamacogenomics and Pharmacogenetics
6. Protein structure prediction and Engineering

*Reading Elective: Any of the electives listed, which has not been optained by the student in Semester III.
The examination is based on self-study.
Duration: 2 hrs.
Pattern: Any 3 questions to be answered out of a total of 5 questions in the question paper.