A Hands-On Tour Through the World of Bioinformatics

DATES: June 8-10, 2006

TIME:  9:00-4:00 pm

COURSE LOCATION: University of Texas, Austin, TX

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Course description:

This course will provide an introduction and overview of bioinformatics and provide hands-on practice with a variety of applications. The majority of lectures will focus on applications that are freely available over the internet. Participants will learn how to use GenBank in addition to databases containing sequence, clinical, and structural information. Example topics include BLAST, Entrez, OMIM, CGAP, Cn3D, phred, phrap, and genomic sequencing.

Tentative Schedule

June 8, Day 1

10:00 am

Introduction: what is bioinformatics?

Taxonomy browsing and activities

Working with data in Excel

noon lunch

1:00 pm -4pm

More Taxonomy

Genome resources

Everything you always wanted to know about BLAST (but were afraid to ask)
June 9, Day 2

9:00 am

Continued BLASTing

Seeing in 3D: Working with macromolecular structures
noon lunch

1:00 pm -4pm

Using VAST comparisons
June 10, Day 3

9:00 am

Special topics
noon lunch

1:00 pm -4pm

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