Bioinformatics - Teoria (2008/2009)

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Course code
4S00183
Name of lecturer
Alejandro Giorgetti
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
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 aim of the course is to provide the students the tools needed for the analysis and interpretration of the biological data. Indeed, the course intends to give the theortical basis for the application of the principal bioinformatic tools, used in genomics and proteomics

Syllabus

Biological databases. FASTA format. We will analyze the way in which the principal biological databases are used for the anotation of genomes. ENSEMBL.

Methods for the prediction and the annotation of the functional elements of a genome

Computational approaches in comparative genomics.

Using DNA microarrays to Assay gene expression.

Sequence alignment. Scoring matrices PAM and BLOSUM. Algorithms. Profiles.

Protein evolution.

3D protein structure prediction: Comparative modelling, Fold recognition and ab initio methods.

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