MATLAB programming detailed syllabus for Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering (BBE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the BBE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit BBE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to BBE Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of matlab programming is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
FUNDAMENTALS 9
Matlab Local Environment Setup, Different window interface: script, and command prompt; working directory, Variables, Naming Variables, Workspace variables, clearing variables, and command windows, output formats, Creating Vectors – Creating Matrices. Basic structure of matlab scripts, main function
Unit II
MATLAB COMMANDS 9
Commands for Managing a Session – Commands for Working with the System-Input and Output Commands (on screen input output for text, numeric data), data import from txt, xls, website data, exporting data into txt file, structure, Vector, Matrix and Array creation, manipulation, searching, arithmetic operation, statistical summary, Cell array, M-Files Creating and Running Script File. Data input and output to and from matlab script, environment.
Unit III
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Unit IV
CONTROL STRUCTURES 9
Control structures – Decision Making, Loops and conditional Statements, ‘for’, ‘if else’, ‘while’ Switch Case. String comparison, terminating control structure: Continue, pause, break, return
Unit V
MATLAB FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 9
Processing biological sequences with MATLAB- Sequence acquisition, Operations on nucleotide sequences, Joining sequences, Restriction site detection, Information retrieval from biological databases.
Application example: detect cancer using mass spectrometry data on protein profiles using ANN, Accessing NCBI Data from the MATLAB® Workspace, Exploring Primer Design,
- https://in.mathworks.com/solutions/biological-sciences/genomics.html
Course Outcomes:
- Identify installation, configuration and environmental setup of Matlab.
- Demonstrate the usage of basic syntax and structure of Matlab
- Apply knowledge of data types, operators and control structures to pseudocode
- Analyze script functionality and offer improved performance in structure
- Appraise structural validity, reproducibility of used Matlab functions
- Formulate biological applications in areas such as sequence processing, sequence analysis.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Stephen J. Chapman, “Essentials of MATLAB Programming”, CL Engineering, Second Edition, 2008.
- William J. Palm III, “Introduction to MATLAB for Engineers”, McGraw-Hill Education, 2010.
- Rafael E. Banchs, “Text Mining with MATLAB”, Springer, 2012.
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