CENG734 ADVANCED TOPICS IN BIOINFORMATICS
| Course Code: | 5710734 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Computer Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Masters |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. TOLGA CAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This course covers recent developments and open research problems in the area of Bioinformatics. Main topics include:• Multiple sequence alignment.
• Protein folding problem. prediction of secondary/tertiary structure.
• Multiple structural alignment. protein docking.
• Functional classification of proteins. human genome annotation.
• Statistical modeling of biological data. kernel based methods. hidden Markov models.
• Data integration
• Prediction and mining of genetic networks and protein interaction networks.