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MIC2025: Bioinformatics for Biomedical Science (Elective: 3 Credit hours)

Learning Outcomes
1. Demonsrate suitable bioinformatics tools to generate meaningful types of data.
2. Apply basic principles of bioinformatics that are relevant to biomedical science.

Course Synopsis
This course will expose students to the basic application of the internet to biomedical sciences;
organisation and uses of scientific databases; use of computational methods in genomics and
transcriptomics; basic homology modelling; analysis and presentation of biomedical data; and
communication of biomedical data using information technology.

Reference Texts

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1. Pevsner, J. (2015). Bioinformatics and functional genomics. (3 Edition). John Wiley & Sons.
2. Ramsden, J. (2021). Bioinformatics: An Introduction. Springer Science & Business Media.
3. Liang, K.H. Bioinformatics for biomedical science and clinical applications (2013). Woodhead
Publishing.
4. Baxevanis A.D, Bader G.D (Editor), Wishart D.S. (Editor). (2020). Bioinformatics: A Practical
Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins (4th Edition). John Wiley & Sons.

Course Coordinator

Dr. Kamariah Ibrahim

kamariahibrahim2106@um.edu.my
03-79676649

Course Assessment

Course will be assessed by Continuous Assessment (100%)

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