1. Basic Concepts of Molecular Biology; Life, Proteins,
Nucleic acids.
2. The Mechanisms of Molecular Genetics; Genes and the
Genetic Code, Transcription, Translation and Protein
Synthesis, junk DNA and Reading frames,Chromosomes
3. How the Genome is Studied; Maps and Sequences, Specific
Techniques
4. The Human Genome Project
5. Molecular Biology Databases on the Web
6. Strings, Graphs and Algorithms
7. Sequence Alignment Algorithms; Global, Semiglobal, and
Local Alignment
8. Multiple Sequence Alignment; Star alignment, Tree
alignment
9. Database Search; PAM, BLOSSUM matrices, BLAST, FASTA
10. Quantitative and Probabilistic Pattern Matching
11. Protein Ligand Docking
12. Bio-ethics
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