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Welcome

Welcome to ABC - the web site of Applied Bioinformatics Course. We'll learn, step by step, the ABCs of:

How to access various bioinformatics resources on the Internet
How to query and search biological databases
How to use bioinformatics tools to analyze your own DNA or protein sequences
How to predict the three dimensional structure of your favorite protein
How to draw a nice tree for the bunch of sequences at your hand

And lots more!

How we learn

We will run the course in a training room (see the above picture). Each student will have a PC with both Linux and Windows installed. We start with simple Linux commands and 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!

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!