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Bioinformatic Methods I
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144 h
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- Fee-based Certificate
- 8 Sequences
- Introductive Level
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Syllabus
- Week 1 - NCBI/Blast I
In this module we'll be exploring the amazing resources available at NCBI, the National Centre for Biotechnology Information, run by the National Library of Medicine in the USA. We'll also be doing a Blast search to find similar sequences in the enormous NR se... - Week 2 - Blast II/Comparative Genomics
In this module we'll continue exploring the incredible resources available at NCBI, the National Centre for Biotechnology Information. We will be performing several different kinds of Blast searches: BlastP, PSI-Blast, and Translated Blast. We can use similar ... - Week 3 - Multiple Sequence Alignments
In this module we'll be doing multiple sequence alignments with Clustal (as implemented in MEGA), DiAlign, and MAFFT. Multiple sequences alignments can tell you where in a sequence the conserved and variable regions are, which is important for understanding th... - Week 4 - Review: NCBI/Blast I, Blast II/Comparative Genetics, and Multiple Sequence Alignments
- Week 5 - Phylogenetics
In this module we'll be using the multiple sequence alignments we generated last lab to do some phylogenetic analyses with both neighbour-joining and maximum likelihood methods. The tree-like structure generated by such analyses tells us how closely sequences ... - Week 6 - Selection Analysis
In this module we'll take a set of orthologous sequences from bacteria and use DataMonkey to analyze them for the presence of certain sites under positive, negative or neutral selection. Such an analysis can help understand the biology of a set of protein codi... - Week 7 - 'Next Gen' Sequence Analysis (RNA-Seq) / Metagenomics
In this module we'll explore some of the data that have been generated as a result of the rapid decrease in the cost of sequencing DNA. We'll be exploring a couple of RNA-Seq data sets that can tell us where any given gene is expressed, and also how that gene ... - Week 8 - Review: Phylogenetics, Selection Analysis, and 'Next Gen' Sequence Analysis (RNA-seq)/Metagenomics + Final Assignment
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Nicholas James Provart
Professor
Cell & Systems Biology
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