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Course Syllabus: Bioinformatics: Life Sciences on Your Computer
Course Overview
Hello
and welcome! This is a five-week course that aims to serve as in
introduction to bioinformatics. It is designed for a variety of levels
and backgrounds. There will be video lectures each week. Some will be based
on Powerpoint format but others are screen capture demos with
narration. All videos are accompanied by supplemental reading in PDF
format.
For a good view of a week's material, please click on the Reading/Practice tab on the left menu. That will summarize the reading material, videos, practice problems and assignment for that week. If anything is not clear, please bring it up in the discussion forum.
There will be
several topics posted for discussion each week, but please do not feel
limited to those topics. There will be a general thread for you to ask
questions or make comments that do not fit the chosen topics.
Week 1: Biological Databases - June 9 - June 15
· Database Structure
· Searching PubMed
· The NCBI Public Sequence Database
· Sequence Retrieval
Week 2 - BLAST and Sequence
Alignment - June 16 - June 22
· Pairwise Sequence Alignment
· BLAST, Database Searches
· Assessing Homology
Week 3 – Protein Bioinformatics - June 23 - June 29
· Determining Molecular Weight, Isoelectric Point
· Predicting Secondary Structure
· The PDB Database
· Prosite Domain searches
· Predicting Cellular Localization
Week 4 – Prokaryotic Genomes - June 30 - July 7
· Bacterial Gene Prediction
· Prokaryotic Gene Structure
· Viruses
Week 5 – Eukaryotic Genomes,
Human Variation - July 8 - July 14
· Eukaryotic Gene Structure
· Ensembl Database
· Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
· DNA Fingerprinting
Last Modified Sat 24 May 2014 2:33 AM CEST