Principles of health and safety and good laboratory practice -- Applications of chemoinformatics in drug discovery -- Bioinformatics and its applications in genomics -- Gene cloning for the analysis of gene expression -- Proteomic techniques and their applications -- Overproduction,separation and purification of affinity-tagged proteins from escherichia coli -- Chromatography: separation techniques in biology -- Synthetic methodology in chemical biology -- Reaction chemical kinetics in biology -- Mass spectrometry and its applications -- Applications and complementarity of analytical ultracentrifugation and light-scattering techniques -- Application of isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) to biomolecular interactions -- An introduction to infrared and raman spectroscopies for pharmaceutical and biomedical studies -- Fluorescence spectroscopy and its applications in analyzing biomolecular processes -- Circular dichroism and related spectroscopic techniques -- Principles and practice in macromolecular X-ray crystallography -- Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy and structure determination of DNA -- Cryo-TEM and biological structure determination -- Computer modelling and molecular dynamics simulation of biomolecules.