B.Sc.

Biotechnology SemesterII BBT 203: Principles and Practices in Computer Science

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 DOS (Linux commands) Fundamentals of DOS Files and Directories in DOS DOS Commands 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 flowcharting Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Word Microsoft Office PowerPoint Microsoft Office Excel Microsoft Office Access Computer Networking Basic concepts protocols, topology Modem LAN (components of LAN), WAN Bioinformatics Basics Introduction & need of bioinformatics Use of internet and WWW 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 Protein Sequence Databases Primary Databases: SwissProt, TrEMBL, PIR Secondary / Motif Sequence Databases: PROSITE, Profile, PRINTS Composite Databases: NRDB, OWL, MIPX, SwissProt/TrEMBL Structure Databases: SCOP, CATH Other relevant Databases: KEGG, PQS, DockGround Sequence Alignment Single Sequence Alignment

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Pairwise Sequence Alignment: BLAST, FASTA Multiple Sequence Alignment: ClustalW Sequence Analysis DNA Sequence Analysis Protein Sequence Analysis CProgramming Introduction to programming Language Constants, variables & data types Operators & Expression Managing input & output operators Decision Control Structure Loop Control structure Case control Structure Data types revisited C Preprocessor Arrays Handling of character strings Data Structures Linked list, stack, queue, binary trees, threaded binary trees Pointers, pointers to functions File and expression handling in C Dynamic memory allocation & linked lists Macro and programming in C Graphics Programming HTML/XML References 1. Modern Digital Electronics, Jain, R. P., Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi (1984). 2. Computers today, Sanders, D. H., McGraw Hill. , New York (1988). 3. Programming in ANSI C, Balaguruswamy, E., Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi (1998). 4. Computer Architecture and Organization, 3rd Edn., Hayes, J. P., WCB/McGrawHill, New Delhi (1998). 5. Fundamentals of Information Technology, Leon, A., Leon, M., Leon Press, Chennai and Vikas Publ. House. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (1999). 6. Introduction to Computers, Leon, A. and Leon, M., Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi (1999). 7. The C Programming Language ANSI C Version, Kernighan and Richie, PHI /Pearson Education Inc., Singapore (2002).

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8. Fundamentals of Computers, Rajaraman, V., PHI, New Delhi (2003). 9. Fundamental concepts in Bioinformatics, Krane, D. E., Raymer, M. L., Pearson Education Inc., India (2003). 10. Computer Networks, 4th Edn., Tanenbaum A. S., Pearson Education Inc., India (2004). 11. Database system concepts. 5th Edn, Silberschatz, A., Korth, H. F., Sudarshan, H., McGraw Hill, Singapore (2006). 12. Introduction to Bioinformatics, Atwood, T.K., ParrySmith, D.J., Phukan, S., Pearson Education Inc., India (2007). 13. Computer Fundamentals, Sinha, P. K., Sinha, P., BPB Publ., New Delhi (2007). 14. Let Us C, Kanetkar, Y., BPB Publications, New Delhi (2008). 15. Schaums outline of programming with C, Gottorfried, B., McGrawHill, New Delhi (2009).