Program Basics in Bioinformatics
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In this introduction to bioinformatics, you will get a behind-the-scenes look at the work of a bioinformatician and learn the basic concepts that are used. You will actively work on answering biological questions using the computational power of computers.
Full-time Short course
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, you will:
- Understand the basic concepts used in bioinformatics;
- Have an overview of the types of research that can be done with bioinformatics;
- Know how to find and use online tools for performing an initial analysis;
- Understand the basics of translating biology into databases and back again;
- Understand the core principles of applying information technology to answer biological questions.
Program per day
Day 1: Basics of biological and computational concepts relevant to bioinformatics
- How do we translate cellular biology into data points, and what does that data look like?
- Where do you obtain biological data? How do you extract relevant information? And how can you combine data and information to build knowledge? (NCBI, SRA, EMBL-EBI, OMIM)
Day 2: Basics of programming for bioinformaticians (Bash/Python/R)
- Why choose a particular programming language?
- What can a programming language accomplish in a biological context?
- Fundamentals of programming concepts (What are variables, data structures, loops, conditional statements and functions?)
- What is a pipeline, and how do we connect multiple programs into a workflow?
Day 3: Basics of sequence analysis of DNA, RNA and proteins and alignment tools (needle, Clustal Omega, MUSCLE, MAFFT)
- What do Multiple Sequence Alignments reveal about sequences?
- How do we translate data points back to the biology of a cell?
Day 4: Basics of genomics, transcriptomics and overall data visualization
- How do we identify the cause of a genetic disease such as cancer?
- How do we explore the influence of different conditions on gene expression?
- How do we view and interpret genetic information?
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