Bioinformatics - Applied Project

The course gives a practical introduction to important methods in bioinformatics, including sequence library searches, pairwise and multiple alignment, phylogenetic analysis, gene prediction, ontology-based analyses, motif discovery and structure prediction. The students will be able to test the methods on realistic problems through computer-based exercises. The students will also do a project where different methods are combined. An individual report from the project will be the basis for grading. The course is in particular targeted towards students with a background from molecular biology who wants to use bioinformatics in an applied context, for example for analysing own data.

The course overlaps with MOL3022, except for the project assignment.

After completing the course the student is able to:

• explain function and usage of important bioinformatics tools, in particular for analyses at the sequence level (genome, gene, RNA and protein)
• describe important formats for storage and exchange of biological information
• describe content and use of important bioinformatics databases and web portals
• use bioinformatics tools and databases to analyse relevant data from molecular biology
• use relevant bioinformatics tools and databases in own projects

Lectures and exercises (computer lab). The lectures are given intensively in two weeks in the spring semester, and includes initial work on the project assignment.

The language of instruction is English.