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What makes bioinformatics education exciting is that people of a variety of education levels can get started quickly, with just a computer and internet access.
Syllabus
Week 1: Biological Databases
· Database Structure
· Searching PubMed
· The NCBI Public Sequence Database
· Sequence Retrieval
Week 2 - BLAST and Sequence Alignment
· Pairwise Sequence Alignment
· BLAST, Database Searches
· Assessing Homology
Week 3 – Protein Bioinformatics
· Determining Molecular Weight, Isoelectric Point
· Predicting Secondary Structure
· The PDB Database
· Prosite Domain searches
· Predicting Cellular Localization
Week 4 – Prokaryotic Genomes
· Bacterial Gene Prediction
· Prokaryotic Gene Structure
· Viruses
Week 5 – Eukaryotic Genomes, Human Variation
· Eukaryotic Gene Structure
· Ensembl Database
· Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
· DNA Fingerprinting
Instructors
- Bob Lessick - Center for Biotechnology Education
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je n'arrrive pas à accéder au cours BIOINFORMATICS: LIFE SCIENCES ON YOUR COMPUTER, comment faire ?
je n'arrrive pas à accéder au cours BIOINFORMATICS: LIFE SCIENCES ON YOUR COMPUTER, comment faire ?
