• Principles of system biology. • Gene expression, regulation and molecular cloning. • Genomics (that is, organismal DNA sequence) and its application. • Epigenetics (that is, DNA methylation, histone acetylation and deacetylation, etc.) and its application. • Proteomics (that is, whole proteins and peptides from organismal, tissue, or cell level) and its application. • Metabolomics (that is, organismal, tissue, or cell level measurements of all small-molecules) and its application. • Application of system biology for studying Chinese medicine. Pre-requisite: None

CILO-1: Describe and assemble the new concepts and principles of system biology. CILO-2: Describe and appraise the principles of next generation sequencing (NGS) and the use of bioinformatics tools to analyze NGS data. CILO-3: Describe and apply the principles and technologies of proteomics, metabolomics and cellomics. CILO-4: Describe and apply the principles and applications of multivariate data method in the integrative analysis of multiple omics data. CILO-5: Evaluate the uses of genomics, proteomic, metabolomic, cellomics and other emerging new omics approaches in new drug discovery and pharmacological research.