B.Sc. BiotechnologySemester‐II

BBT 203: Principles and Practices in Computer Science Total 24 P

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Basics of Computer Basic structure: Input, Output & Storage Devices, ALU, Memory, CPU Developments and classification of computers Machine languages Essentials of computer operations and applications Data Processing, flow chart Developments and classification of computers

1 P

2

DOS (Linux commands) Fundamentals of DOS Files and Directories in DOS DOS Commands

1 P

3

Introduction to operating systems: Windows/Linux Components of the O.S. Running Applications Switching between applications Arranging windows on the desktop Algorithms – Definitions and properties Flowcharts – Principles, converting algorithm to flow‐charting

1 P

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Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Word Microsoft Office Power‐Point Microsoft Office Excel Microsoft Office Access

1 P

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Computer Networking Basic concepts‐ protocols, topology Modem LAN (components of LAN), WAN

1 P

6 Bioinformatics Basics Introduction & need of bioinformatics Use of internet and WWW

1 P

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Bioinformatics Databases Bibliographic databases: Medline, PubMed, PubMed Central, Mesh Nucleotide Sequence Databases: Primary Nucleotide Sequence Databases: EMBL, GenBank, DDBJ Secondary Nucleotide Sequence Databases: UniGene, SGD, EMI Genomes, Genome Biology

1 P

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Protein Sequence DatabasesPrimary Databases: Swiss‐Prot, TrEMBL, PIR Secondary / Motif Sequence Databases: PROSITE, Profile, PRINTS Composite Databases: NRDB, OWL, MIPX, Swiss‐Prot/TrEMBL Structure Databases: SCOP, CATH Other relevant Databases: KEGG, PQS, DockGround

1 P

9 Sequence Alignment Single Sequence Alignment

1 P

Pair‐wise Sequence Alignment: BLAST, FASTAMultiple Sequence Alignment: ClustalW

10 Sequence Analysis DNA Sequence Analysis Protein Sequence Analysis

1 P

11 C‐Programming Introduction to programming Language Constants, variables & data types

1 P

12 Operators & Expression Managing input & output operators

1 P

13 Decision Control Structure Loop Control structure Case control Structure

1 P

14 Data types revisited 1 P

15 C‐ Preprocessor 1 P

16 Arrays 1 P

17 Handling of character strings 1 P

18 Data Structures Linked list, stack, queue, binary trees, threaded binary trees

1 P

19 Pointers, pointers to functions 1 P

20 File and expression handling in C 1 P

21 Dynamic memory allocation & linked lists 1 P

22 Macro and programming in C 1 P

23 Graphics Programming 1 P

24 HTML/XML 1 P

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