Fundamentals of Genetics

Assignment 1

Name Asad ur Rehman

Registration Number SP20-BSE-016

Class Section A

Instructor’s Name Mam Maryam Mehmood

 Biotechnology
It is the field of biology which is used to solve problems and make useful products. The most
bulging area of biotechnology is the production of beneficial proteins and other drugs through
genetic engineering. It concerns with the genetic manipulation of microorganisms for the
production of antibiotics, hormones, etc.

Computational Biology & Biotechnology:

Computational biology is the combined application of math, statistics and computer science to
solve biology-based problems. Biology is a subject which makes wide use of biological
databases to try to tackle many different challenges. Datasets of biological data can be created
from amino-acid sequences, nucleotides, macromolecular structures and so on.

Genomics:
The study of genes and their expression is called as Genomics. This field generates a vast
amount of data from gene sequences, their interrelation and functions. To manage this vast
enormous data, computational biology plays a very important role. It stores all data and organize
the data. It plays important role in examine of structure of genes and DNA.

Drug Discovery:
Computational biology is playing an increasingly important role in nearly all aspects of drug
discovery, drug assessment and drug development. This growing importance is not because
bioinformatics handles large volumes of data but also in the utility of bioinformatics tools to
predict, analyze and help interpretation in clinical and preclinical findings.

Benefits:
 It helps to improve agricultural system like People have been modifying plants, animals
and microorganisms for specific uses for centuries.
 Due to Computational science, scientist encoded the genes structure and DNA and now
mutation can be occurred artificially due to Computational biology.

Limitations of Computational biology in Biotechnology:

 Heterogeneity of how data are analyzed, annotated and displayed.
 Lack of connectivity among the data
 It is limited in genetics formations as we observe genes more precisely.

Asad Ur Rehman = 1.5

Muhammad farhan = 1.5