Advanced Bioinformatics Course

Course Description:

The advanced bioinformatics course is designed to explain the algorithms, tools, databases, and applications of bioinformatics. In particular, complex applications applied to drug discovery are described.

Course Objectives:

> Current bioinformatics tools and databases

> Simple and complex applications of bioinformatics in genomics and molecular biology, including the creation of complex, pipelines for processing large volumes of data

> Bioinformatics programming systems and development tools, databases and data structures, and the strengths and weaknesses of different object and data models in bioinformatics

Course Outline:

Introduction

1. Course Overview

2. Introduction

3. Definitions

4. Database Hierarchies

5. Sequence Databases

Module 1 - Algorithms

6. Objectives

7. Sequence Processing

8. Sequence Similarity Searching

9. Sequence Alignment

10. Sequence Motifs

11. Sequence Motif Searching

12. Sequence Searching with HMMS

13. Multiple Sequence Alignment

14. Progress Check

Module 2 - Tools

15. Objectives

16. Repeatmasker

17. PHRED

18. PHRAP

19. BLAST

20. Prosite/BLOCKS/PFAM

21. CLUSTALW

22. Emotif

23. Progress Check

Module 3 - Databases

24. Objectives

25. GenBank

26. Entrez

27. OMIM

28. PDB

29. EcoCyc

30. Progress Check

Module 4 - Applications

31. Objectives

32. Hierachical Genome Assembly

33. Shotgun Genome Assembly

34. Genome Annotation Features

35. Genome Annotation Tools

36. Expression Analysis I: Informatics

37. Expression Analysis II: EST Clustering

38. Protein Modeling

39. Protein Design

40. Antibody Engineering: Fv Domains

41. Antibody Engineering: Humanization

42. Drug Design I: SARs

43. Drug Design II: Structure-Based

44. Drug Design III: Pharmacophores

45. Progress Check

Conclusion

46. Final Assessment

Each Online Training Course or Professional Designation Program listed below comes complete with;

> 24 hour access to the course for 90 days,

> a printable PDF file including the notes to the course,

> a test used to measure your understanding of the material provided in the course, and

> a Certificate of Completion once you have passed a course, or;

> a Certificate of Professional Designation if you are enrolling in a Professional Designation program
Course Units 3 of 5 Units
Price: $245.00 / GBP127.40