AL-803 (B) RGPV B.Tech
Bio Informatics (BI)
Previous year papers and the official syllabus are free to read, no account needed.
Previous Year Papers
2 papers, latest Jun 2025
Syllabus, notes and important questions for AL-803 (B)
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Introduction 8 topics
- Introduction to bioinformatics
- Objectives of bioinformatics
- Basic chemistry of nucleic acids
- Structure of DNA & RNA
- Genes
- Structure of bacterial chromosome
- Cloning methodology
- Data maintenance and integrity tasks
Unit 2 Bioinformatics Databases & Image Processing 13 topics
- Types of databases
- Nucleotide sequence databases
- Protein sequence databases
- Protein structure databases
- Normalization
- Data cleaning and transformation
- Protein folding
- Protein function
- Protein purification and characterization
- Introduction to Java clients
- CORBA
- Using MYSQL
- Feature extraction
Unit 3 Sequence Alignment and Database Searching 7 topics
- Introduction to sequence analysis
- Models for sequence analysis
- Methods of optimal alignment
- Tools for sequence alignment
- Dynamic programming
- Heuristic methods
- Multiple sequence alignment
Unit 4 Gene Finding and Expression 8 topics
- Cracking the genome
- Biological decoder ring
- Finding genes through mathematics and learning
- Gene prediction tools
- Gene mapping
- Application of mapping
- Modes of gene expression data
- Mining gene expression data
Unit 5 Proteomics & Problem Solving in Bioinformatics 8 topics
- Proteome analysis
- Tools for proteome analysis
- Genetic networks
- Network properties and analysis
- Complete pathway simulation (E‑cell)
- Genomic analysis for DNA & protein sequences
- Strategies and options for similarity search
- Flowcharts for protein structure prediction
Exam insights
Counted from 3 past AL-803 (B) papers.
Marks asked per paper, by unit
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Unit 1 Introduction 12 marks
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Unit 2 Bioinformatics Databases & Image Processing 15 marks
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Unit 3 Sequence Alignment and Database Searching 10 marks
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Unit 4 Gene Finding and Expression 8 marks
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Unit 5 Proteomics & Problem Solving in Bioinformatics 12 marks
Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.
Asked again and again
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What is BLAST and how does it work?
Asked 3 times: 2022, 2023, 2024
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Explain the steps involved in constructing a phylogenetic tree.
Asked 2 times: 2023, 2024
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Describe the process of gene prediction and list common tools.
Asked 2 times: 2022, 2024