Teaching Bioinformatics to Computer Science Students

Abstract

This paper presents a result of a new methodology of teaching and training students in building modern intelligent systems. The elective course in intelligent systems taught at Institute of Informatics in Skopje offers interesting and modern topics that include modeling the real world, data mining, mechanical robotics, bioinformatics among others. This paper covers the methodology used in teaching bioinformatics part of the intelligent systems course. Some examples of student work on this field are also presented. The experiments we carried out show that there are emerging potentials of teaching and modeling biological systems for educational purposes. Furthermore, these systems can be extended to other useful applications