Biology and Biotechnology for Bioinformatics

(3 Credits)

The online course is aimed at introducing the key ideas from biology and biochemistry and how they are used in modern biotechnology. The goal of this course is to develop students’ critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills in the specific context of biotechnology and its modern applications. This course will explore a plethora of technologies used in the fields of genetic engineering, forensics, agriculture, bioremediation and medicine in order to give the students a basic but fundamental experimental skill set which can be applied in conjunction with computational skills to solve biological problems in a scalable manner. Students enroll into this course should have knowledge of basic Sciences (Biology, Physics and Chemistry).