Bioinformatics - Laboratorio (2008/2009)-Dep.Biotechnology-University of Verona

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Course code: 4S00183
Name of lecturer: Alejandro Giorgetti
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 1
Academic sector: BIO/10 - BIOCHEMISTRY
Language of instruction: Italian
Location: VERONA
Period: 1° Sem dal Oct 1, 2008 al Feb 6, 2009.

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Learning outcomes

The laboratory aims to provide intensive practical lessons in which freely available state of art tools wil be used in order to access and anlyze the biological relevant data.

Syllabus

Database interrogation techniques. Use of the principal genomewide datasets.

Methods for sequence alignment. Use of the principal programs.

Evolution. Database search by similarity. Statistical significance of the obtained results. Use of the programs: FASTA, BLAST, PSI-Blast.

Use of state of art programs for the prediction of the 3D structure of a protein.

Gene prediction using state of art programs.
Use of ENSEMBL database.

Using DNA Microarrays to Assay gene expression. Clustering. TIGR.

Functional annotation:
. Gene Ontology (GO).