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Bioinformatics Methods (2018 Spring)

Organisation: UTU / Dept. of Future Technologies

Credit Points: 5

Responsible Person: Martti Tolvanen

Course code: BIOI4464

Learning outcomes:
After completing this course the student can: find, retrieve and analyze data from major bioinformatic databases, evaluating critically the results; conduct and understand searches based on DNA and protein sequence similarity; construct multiple sequence alignments; and describe the meaning of background/reference gene sets in enrichment analysis. Additionally, the student can infer phylogenetic relationships by constructing phylogenetic trees from sequence alignments and explain the limitations of phylogenetic tree construction.

Contents:
A general introduction to key areas of bioinformatics: bioinformatic databases, genomics, DNA and protein sequences, protein structures; theory and practice of the most common computational tools used in bioinformatics.

8.1.–22.1.2018

Lectures:

  1. Mon 8.1.–22.1. weekly at 12–14, 110C, Agora
  2. Fri 12.1.–19.1. weekly at 12–14, 110C, Agora

Most meetings contain hands-on work, so you are expected to have a laptop computer with you, or be prepared to sit next to someone else's computer.