New Curriculum Design Model for Bioinformatics
Postgraduate program using Systems Biology Approach |
PK.Ragunath, P.Venkatesan, R.Ravimohan * |
Department of Bioinformatics, Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai, India |
| *Corresponding author: |
Dr. R.Ravimohan,
Department of Bioinformatics,
Sri Ramachandra University, Porur, Chennai, India,
E-mail : r_ravimohan@yahoo.com |
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Received November 26, 2009; Accepted December 24, 2009; Published
December 24, 2009 |
Citation:
Ragunath PK, Venkatesan P, Ravimohan R (2009) New Curriculum
Design Model for Bioinformatics Postgraduate program using
Systems Biology Approach. J Comput Sci Syst Biol 2: 300-305. doi:10.4172/jcsb.1000046 |
Copyright: © 2009 Ragunath PK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed
under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Abstract |
Bioinformatics is the application of information technology
to the field of molecular biology. In formal education,
a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content,
offered at a school or university. Curriculum design should
take into account intentions and outcomes. It should encourage
students to make choices and explore their consequences.
Hence, the need arises for developing a new
method for curriculum development for a course in
Bioinformatics (which is a truly interdisciplinary in nature).
Systems Biology Approach is a biology-based inter-
disciplinary study field that focuses on the systematic
study of complex interactions in biological systems, thus
using a new perspective (holism instead of reduction) to
study them. We have evolved a new curriculum design
using the System Biology Approach (SRU Model) for the
M.Sc. bioinformatics course in the Department of
Bioinformatics in Sri Ramachandra University, India. The
curriculum is designed to follow the three tier architecture
model. The results have been very encouraging and
this Curriculum Design model is portable for any other
courses.and the details are discussed. |
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