Bioinformatics
Programma
- Introduction to bioinformatics
- Biological databases
- Pairwise sequence alignments
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)
- Multiple sequence Alignment
- Protein analysis and Proteomics
- Introduction to Protein structure analysis and prediction
- Biomolecular interaction networks
Obiettivi formativi
Aim of the course is to provide students with the basic knowledge of bioinformatics techniques as an easy and friendly support for their study and research careers. This will entail: 1) theory of the most common bioinformatics algorithms and resources: who they are, what they do and why they are so important and increasingly used in modern biology research; 2) basic practical experience through hands-on-sessions on typical problems that can be answered by using popular online tools.
Riferimenti bibliografici
Introduction to Bioinformatics, by Arhur A. Lesk
Fondamenti di Bioinformatica, by Manuela Helmer-Citterich, Fabrizio Ferre', Giulio Pavesi, Graziano Pesole, Chiara Romualdi
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, by Jonathan Pevsner