VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM

SCHEME OF TEACHING AND EXAMINATION FOR

M.TECH. BIOTECHNOLOGY(BBT)
III Semester
Subject
Code
Name of the Subject
Teaching hours/week
Duration of
Exam in Hours
Marks for
Total
Marks Lecture
Field
Work/
Assignment/
Tutorials
I.A. Exam
12BBT31 Research Methodology 04 - 3 50 100 150
12BBT32X Elective-III 04 2 3 50 100 150
12BBT33X Elective-IV 04 2 3 50 100 150
Project Work Phase II $
12BBT34 Evaluation of Project - Phase I -- 3 - 50 -- 50
TOTAL 12 7 09 200 300 500


Elective III Elective IV
12BBT321 GMP & GLP
12BBT322 Bioethics, Biosafety & IPR
12BBT323 Management Entrepreneurship & Biobusiness
12BBT331 Clinical Biotechnology Metabolic Engineering
12BBT332 Metabolic Engineering
12BBT333 Tissue Engineering
VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, BELGAUM
SCHEME OF TEACHING AND EXAMINATION FOR
M.TECH. BIOINFORMATICS (BBI)
III Semester
Subject
Code
Name of the Subject
Teaching hours/week
Duration of
Exam in Hours
Marks for
Total
Marks Lecture
Practical/
Field Work/
Assignment/
Tutorials
I.A. Exam
12BBI31 Research Methodology 4 -- 3 50 100 150
12BBI32X Elective-III 4 2 3 50 100 150
12BBI33X Elective-IV 4 2 3 50 100 150
12BBI34 Project Phase II $
12BBI35 Evaluation of Project Phase I -- 3 -- 50 -- 150
Total 12 07 09 200 300 500


RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Subject Code : 12BBT31 IA Marks : 50
No. of Lecture Hrs./ Week : 04 Exam Hrs : 03
Field work/ Assignment Hrs./Week : 02 Exam Marks : 100

What is research? Reflection, Science & Research. Basic & Applied Research, Steps in Research

Literature Collection: Review of literature, review process and bibliography, research / discriminative reading,
consulting source material, major libraries subscribing journals related to biotechnology in the region and country
Formulation of Research Objectives and Testing of hypothesis, Research method and materials, Research action,
Data collection and analysis plan,

Research budget and resources. Funding agencies: National and international funding agencies for R & D.
Preparation of R & D projects for funding: Organization of a research project, identification of gap areas in the
subject, aims and objectives of the projects, possible outcome of the project, funds requirements and
justification(s).

Introduction identification of the research question, hypotheses, and justification for the topic Literature review
updated version of the initial literature review developed for the research proposal

Planning of experiments, Sampling representative sampling, random and systematic sampling, sample and
population parameters, Data Gathering thorough description of methods of data gathering and sources.
Analytical Techniques detailed discussion of data gathering and analytical methods, including explanation of
their suitability of these techniques compared with others and any possible problems arising from the methods
selected. Data Analysis and Presentation application and execution of analytical techniques, and interpretations
of findings.

Statistical analysis: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Regression, Frequencies, Transformation of data,
Principle designs: Randomized Design, Randomized Complete block design, Latin square design
Elective III Elective - IV
12BBI321 Artificial Intelligence 12BBI331 Database Management & Grid Computing
12BBI322 Neuroinformatics 12BBI332 BioPerl, BioPython & NCBI C++ Toolkit
12BBI323 Java for Bioinformatics & Biomedical Application 12BBI333Bioinformatics in Drug Design & Discovery
$ 3 Days Course work and 3 days for Project work
Scientific Writing: Writing scientific English. Organization and writing of a research paper, short
communications, review articles, monographs, technical and survey
reports, authored books and edited books, and dissertation. Format for manuscript writing, documentation,
organization of reference material, bibliography, end note etc to be discussed with case studies.

Other Issues: Ethical issues, Issues related to plagiarism, copyright laws, acknowledging the sources etc to be
discussed with case studies.
Patents and patents writing: Parts of Patent applications characteristics of the disclosure for a biotechnology
invention, marketing of biotechnological invention.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Ivan Valiela. Doing Science: Design, Analysis, and Communication of Scientific Research,Oxford
University Press, USA, 2000.
2. William I.B. Beveridge. The Art of Scientific Investigation, Blackburn press pages 178, 2004.