IISC training

I have heard that IISC provides coaching to the students. Is it true? If yes then tell me which training courses are offered by IISC Bioinformatics centre? And give me the syllabus of these courses?

[Saksham]

The training courses offered by the IISC Bioinformatics centre are as follows.

Courses Offered:

-Se 301 (aug) 2:0
Bioinformatics by
S. Ramakumar and k. Sekar

Syllabus:
Biological Databases: Organisation, searching and retrieval of information, accessing global bioinformatics resources using internet links. Introduction to Unix operating system and network communication. Nucleic Acids Sequence assembly, restriction mapping, finding simple sites and transcriptional signals, coding region identification, RNA secondary structure prediction. Similarity and Homology, dotmatrix methods, dynamic programming methods, scoring systems, multiple sequence alignments, evolutionary relationships, genome analysis. Protein Physical properties, structural properties - secondary structure prediction, hydrophobicity patterns, detection of motifs, structural database (PDB). Genome databases, Cambridge structure database, data mining tools and techniques, Structural Bioinformatics, Topics from the current literature will be discussed. Hands on experience will be provided.

-se 302 (jan) 2:0
Computational approaches to drug discovery
by
Nagasuma chandra

- Bioinformatics Course for the year 1999