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Faculty of Science Handbook, Session 2017/2018

Storz (2014). Molecular Biology: Principles of Genome Medium of Instruction:
Function. English
3. Leland H. Hartwell, Michael Goldberg, Janice Fischer
and Charles (Chip) Aquadro (2014). Genetics: From Soft Skills:
Genes to Genomes. CS3, CT3, TS2
Main References:
SIV 3011 CURRENT TOPICS IN BIOINFORMATICS 1. Walter Savitch (2013). Absolute C++. Fifth Edition.
Pearson.
This course covers special topics concerning currents 2. Walter Savitch (2012). Problem Solving with C++. 7 ed.
th
issues in Bioinformatics. It headed towards special topics Addison Wesley.
that introduce bioinformatics. Importance is as well given to 3. Tore Samuelsson (2012). Genomics and Bioinformatics:
the latest research areas in bioinformatics. Topics are An Introduction to Programming Tools for Life Scientists.
delivered in a series of seminars followed by exercises and Cambridge University Press.
assignments.
Assessment Methods: SIV 2014 HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
Continuous Assessment: 100%
This course introduces the concepts of human-computer
Medium of Instruction: interaction, interaction design process, implementation
English support, evaluation techniques and current issues in HCI
such as mobile interface design and interactive web-based
Soft Skills: systems.
CS3, CT3, LL2, EM2
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 40%
SIV 2012 BIOIMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS Final Examination: 60%

This course aims to introduce the concepts in image Medium of Instruction:
processing and analysis, specifically on biological images. English
It covers the introduction of the digital image
representation, processing and analysis. Various problems Soft Skills:
related to biological images are considered to be solved CS3, LL2, EM2
using programming language such as Matlab and C++, as
well as image processing and analysis software such as Main References:
ImageJ and Adobe Photoshop. 1. Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers, and Helen Sharp.
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer
Assessment Methods: Interaction. John Wiley.
Continuous Assessment: 60% 2. Alan Dix, Janet Finlay, Gregory Abowd, and Russel
Final Examination: 40% Beale (2013). Human- Computer Interaction. Prentice
Hall.
Medium of Instruction: 3. Ben Schneiderman. Designing the User Interface:
English Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. 5 th
ed. Addison Wesley.
Soft Skills:
CS3, CT3, TS2
Main References: SIV 3007 INSTRUMENTATION IN BIOLOGICAL
1. Rafael C. Gonzalez & Richard E. Woods (2012). Digital SCIENCES
Image Processing. 3rd ed. Pearson Education.
2. Chris Solomon & Toby Breckon (2013). Fundamental of This course is going to introduce basic techniques and skills
Digital Image Processing: A Practical Approach with in biological experiments and instrumentation. It will cover
Examples in Matlab. Wiley-Blackwell. the basic biochemistry, genetics, molecular, physical
3. Omer Demirkaya, Musa H. Asyali, Prasanna K. Sahoo biochemistry experimental techniques to answer biological
(2012). Image Processing with MATLAB: Applications in questions.
Medicine and Biology. CRC Press.
Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 100%
SIV 2013 OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Medium of Instruction:
This course aims to introduce the concept of object- English
oriented programming. It covers the introduction of object-
oriented (OO) programming paradigm such as OO Soft Skills:
concepts (class, property, method, etc.), constructor, CT3, TS2
destructor, operator overloading, functions, class template,
data abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, exception Main References:
handling, pointers, recursion and linked list data structure. 1. M. H. Fulekar and B. Pandey (2013). Bioinstrumentation.
Various problems related to Bioinformatics are considered K International Publishing House.
to be solved using OO programming language such as C++ 2. S. Bejugam and V. R. Meka (2012). BioInstrumentation:
or Java. Tremor Quantification and Parameter Extraction. LAP
LAMBERT Academic Publishing.
Assessment Methods: 3. G. Karp (2013). Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts
Continuous Assessment: 60% and Experiments. Wiley.
Final Examination: 40%

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