Applied Bioinformatics Course

How we learn

We will run the course in a training room. Each student will have a PC with either Linux or Windows installed. We start with introducing the international bioinformatics resources around the world, for example, NCBI and EBI. We then use the WebLab bioinformatics platform developed by CBI, to get familiar with dozens of bioinformatics tools through hands-on practice. We will do a lot of exercises for sequence alignment, database similarity search, motif finding, gene prediction, as well as phylogenetic tree construction and molecular modeling. Finally, we will focus on several projects to solve real biological problems. You are also encouraged to bring your own problems to discuss and, hopefully, to solve during the course! Please read the article Teaching the ABC of Bioinformatics [PDF] to know more about this course.

What you need before the course

• A desktop PC or laptop hooked to the Internet
• Good background of molecular biology
• Ability to read and write in English
• At least another 6 hours to stick on the Internet doing homework of the course

What you gain from the course

Don't expect to become a bioinformatics expert, but you will know:

Half day on the Web, saves you half month in the lab!