BINC Information Technology Syllabus – Advanced
Local area networking, network devices, IP address, computational cluster
Parallel processing/computing, cluster computing, grid computing, etc
Java and Perl programming
Introduction to distributed database processing; understand, appreciate and implement relational database design
SQL and front end development
Select statement
Data definition statements
Data manipulation statements
Data control statements
Other database objects: Views, Sequences, Synonyms
Application development using visual basic
Working with code and forms
Variables, procedures and controlling program executor
Standard controls
Data access using Data control
Connecting to Oracle database using visual basic
Using Oracle DBMS as backend, SQL skills and basic skill in using VB as a front end
Computer graphics and visualization
Introduction
Scientific and Engineering opportunities
Visualization techniques: Software, Hardware, Color representation – RGB, CMY, gray-scale
Interactive graphics
Interaction devices and techniques
Geometric transformations
Viewing in three dimensions. Stereo-pairs, perspective, depth-cue
Rendering
Standards – CGI, GKS, PHIGS
Programming in C
Concepts of flowcharts, algorithm development, pseudo codes etc
Computer assignments based on the following topics in ‘C’ programming: Data types, operatos and expressions, Hierarchy of operators, control statements including decision (if, if-else), loops (while, do-while, for), branching (switch, break, continue), functions, arrays (1D, 2D- all matrix operations including inverse of a matrix), strings, Pointers, file handling, data structures etc,
OR
Programming in Object Oriented Languages
JAVA
An introduction to JAVA programming
Object-oriented programming and Java
Java basics
Working with objects
Arrays, Conditionals and Loops
Creating classes and applications in Java
More about methods
Java applets basics
Graphics, Fonts and Color
Simple Animation and threads
Advanced animation, images and sound
Managing simple events and interactivity
Creating user interfaces with AWT
Modifiers, Access control and class design
Packages and Interfaces
Exception
Multithreading
Streams and I/O
Using Native methods and libraries
Java programming tools
Working with data structures and Java
Image filters,
OR
Perl
What is Perl? Why use Perl in Bioinformatics? History of Perl, Availability, Support, Basic concepts.
Scalar data: What is Scalar Data? Numbers, strings, scalar operators, scalar variables, scalar operators and functions
Arrays and list data: What is a list or array? Literal representation, variables, arrays operators and functions, scalar and list context
Control structures: Statement blocks
Hashes: What is a Hash? Hash variables, Literal representation of a Hash, Hash Functions, Hash Slices
Basic I/O
Regular expressions: Concepts about regular expressions, simple uses of regular expressions, patterns, matching operator, substitutions, the split and join functions
Subroutines: System and user functions, the local operator, variable-length parameter lists, lexical variables
Miscellaneous control structures
Filehandles and file tests: What is a filehandle? Opening and closing a filehandle, using pathnames and filenames, die, using filehandles, The –x file tests, the stat function
Formats: What is a format? Defining a format, invoking a format
Directory access: Directory tree, globbing, directory handles, opening and closing a directory handle, reading a directory handle
File and directory manipulation
Process management: Using system and exec, using backquotes
Other data transformation: Finding a substring, extracting and replacing a substring
Formatting data: Sorting, Transliteration
System information: Getting User and Machine information, Packing and Unpacking Binary data, getting network information
Database manipulation: DBM databases and DBM Hashes, Opening and closing DBM Hashes, Fixed-length random-access databases, Variable-Length (Text) Databases, Win32 Database Interfaces
CGI programming: The CGI.pm Module, CGI program in context, simple CGI programs, passing parameters via CGI, Perl and the Web
Object oriented perl: Introduction to modules, Creating Objects
Bioperl: Introduction, Installation procedures, Architecture, Uses of bioperl
Bio-Informatics National Certification (BINC) Syllabus