Examination procedure
<p> Written/Practical exam</p>
Examination procedure notes
<p>Practical exam</p>
Prerequisites
MS, PhD
Syllabus
1) Introduction to bioinformatics
2) Biological databases
3) Pairwise sequence alignments
4) Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)
5) Multiple sequence Alignment
6) Molecular Phylogenetics
7) Protein domains and proteome modularity
8) Protein structure analysis, alignments and classification
9) Protein structure prediction
10) Biomolecular interaction networks
11) hands-on (based on available freely available webservers and softwares): a) sequence alignments, b) protein structure analysis and prediction, c) molecular interaction network analysis (visualization, annotation and functional enrichment)
Bibliographical references
Introduction to Bioinformatics, by Arhur A. LeskFondamenti di Bioinformatica, by Manuela Helmer-Citterich, Fabrizio Ferre', Giulio Pavesi, Graziano Pesole, Chiara Romualdi
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, by Jonathan Pevsner