An Initiative of Ministry of Education under the National Mission on Education through ICT

Bioinformatics and Data Science in Biotechnology Lab

Broad Areas of Virtual Labs
Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering
AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM
Introduction
In this lab, students will be able to learn and practice basics of R programming. Students can expand their skillset in R programming by reading and writing biological sequence data in R platform. Educating this will allow users to learn how to use R as an open source language for learning bioinformatics data processing. Specifically, this lab will help analyse biological sequence data using simple R code snippets. With the features such as flexibility, data handling and modelling capabilitie R programming has been a widely accepted software tools for bioinformatics. It also supports the creation and use of self-describing data structures. With the trends in data science, the lab focuses on FOSS implementations which can be further utilized as laboratory manual or reference material for life science students.

Objective

Introduction to the basics of R programming techniques in bioinformatics and bioscience data processing.

Retrieving public sequence databases

Use of computational tools to find sequences, analysis of protein and amino acid sequences without the need of many other software packages.

To retrieve biological sequence of different organisms and to identify regions for similarity for phylogenic analysis.

To study sequence alignment methods using R code snippets even for students without biology background.

Target Audience

  • UG
    • B.Tech./ B.E. in Biotechnology/Microbiology/Bioinformatics
  • PG
    • MS/Ph.D. Beginners in Biotechnology/Microbiology/Bioinformatics

Course Alignment

The syllabus of this lab aligns to the following universities in India.
  1. Anna University, Tamil Nadu
  2. Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka
  3. Bharathiyar University, Tamil Nadu
  4. Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu
  5. Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu
  6. Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra

Allocated University

No university information available.

Reference Books

No reference books available.

Lab Contact Person

Dhanush Kumar,
Developer Engineer,
Amrita Mind Brain Center
9048733315