Online Course

Course Pre-Requisites

This course requires that participants should have some basic understanding of biology (molecular, cell). This will aid greatly when participants are going through the course.

Note : The articles/materials put up or mentioned herein are non-examinable. These resources are meant for participants with little or no background in Biology/Bioinformatics.

S* course pre-requisites are :
(1) Basic biology background; OR
(2) Listed below is the selected lecture presentations by our S* lecturers which will introduce to you some of the fundamentals and relevant concepts:

OR (3) Read up some books introductory books on biology

• Genes VII Molecular Biology of The Cell

• Biochemistry

OR (4) Take A Short Tutorial Series On Bioinformatics

No	Description	Photo
1	Overview of Bioinformatics by A/P Shoba Ranganathan Justin Choo email : Email
2	Biological Databases by Lim Yun Ping email : Email
3	Sequence Analysis I by Chen Xin email : Email
4	Sequence Analysis II by Paul Tan Thiam Joo email : Email
5	Sequence Comparison I by Manisha Brahmachary email : Email
6	Sequence Comparison II by Cao ZhiWei email : Email
7	Finding Patterns by Bernett Lee Teck Kwong email : Email
8	Pattern Database by Gopalan Vivek email : Email
9	Part I : Introduction To Protein Structure by Kong LeSheng & Shoba Ranganathan email : Email
10	Part II : Introduction to Protein Structure by Victor Tong Joo Chuan & Kong LeSheng email : Email

OR (5) Work through a few online tutorials

• Beginner's Guide To Molecular Biology UCLA Molecular Biology Tutorial (FLASH required)

• Cell and Molecular Biology Online

Additional Reading Materials
[1]
Science Magazine - Human Genome Special Issue
Click on "The Human Genome Sequence"
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol291/issue5507/

[2]
Science Magazine . Bioinformatics . Trying To Swim In A Sea Of Data
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5507/1260