Bioinformatics aims to develop methods and software for processing large amount of biological data, and it has become an important tool in many areas of biology. This course covers major topics of bioinformatics, which includes: Introduction to bioinformatics; Collection and storage of sequences; Sequence alignment; Sequence databases; Introduction to statistics and probability analysis; Recognition of sequence patterns; Molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis; Genome analysis and gene prediction; RNA bioinformatics; (10) Protein structure analysis and prediction; (11) Microarray data analysis; (12) Biomolecular network. This course also provides hands-on practice on some software and databases of bioinformatics.
Biological / Biomedical Science
生物，又称为生命科学，是自然科学的一大门类，是系统地阐述与自然生命特性有关的重大课题的科学，支配着无生命世界的物理和化学定律同样也适用于生命世界，无须赋予生活物质一种神秘的活力。生命科学由经验主义出发，广泛研究生命的所有方面，包括生命起源、演化、分布、构造、发育、功能、行为、与环境的互动关系，以及生物分类学等。
