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MIC2025: Bioinformatics for Biomedical Science (Elective: 3 credits)

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
1. Pevsner, J. (2015). Bioinformatics and functional genomics. (3 Edition). John
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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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