All About Bioinformatics

Dr. Yasha Hasija is currently working as Professor, Department of Biotechnology, and Associate Dean (Alumni A_x001D_ffairs) at Delhi Technological University. She has published more than 100 research articles and review papers in national and international journals and conferences and 19 book chapters. She has served as Topic Editor in Frontiers in Physiology, Computational Physiology, and Medicine, 2022, and is also on the Editorial Board of numerous international journals. She has made noteworthy contributions in the area of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics as an author and editor of two notable books.Dr. Hasija’s work has earned recognition and received several prestigious awards, including the Govt. of India–Department of Science and Technology Award for attending the meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany, in 2002; and Human Gene Nomenclature Award at the Human Genome Meeting 2010 held at Montpellier, France. She has also been awarded Research Excellence Awards at DTU for 5 consecutive years (2018–2022). Prof. Hasija is the Project Investigator of several sponsored research projects from Govt. of India departments including DST, CSIR, and DBT. She has delivered more than 20 invited talks at several prestigious universities and institutions. She is an Active Researcher supervising BTech, MTech, MSc, and PhD students at Delhi Technological University. Her broad areas of research include genome informatics, integration of genome-scale data for systems biology, and machine learning applications in healthcare.

• 1. What is bioinformatics? 2. Introduction to biological databases 3. Statistical methods in bioinformatics 4. Algorithms in computational biology 5. Genetic variations 6. Structural bioinformatics 7. High throughput technology 8. Drug informatics 9. A machine learning approach to bioinformatics 10. Systems and network biology 11. Bioinformatics workflow management systems 12. Data handling using Python