Bioinformatics on the Web
5 credits
Syllabus, Bachelor's level, 1BG421
This course has been discontinued.
A revised version of the syllabus is available.
- Code
- 1BG421
- Education cycle
- First cycle
- Main field(s) of study and in-depth level
- Biology G2F
- Grading system
- Fail (U), Pass (3), Pass with credit (4), Pass with distinction (5)
- Finalised by
- The Faculty Board of Science and Technology, 21 April 2009
- Responsible department
- Biology Education Centre
Learning outcomes
After the course the student should have the following skills;
- to search biological information on the web,
- to use basic software for studies of DNA sequences and protein structures,
- to use bioinformatics tools to solve biological problems, and
- to interpret results from various computer based methods.
Content
Treated issues; Compile sequence data. Basic sequence analysis. Databases and search in databases. Patterns in DNA sequences. Secondary structures. Three-dimensional structures of proteins. Alignments. Phylogenetic reconstructions. Metabolic reconstructions.
Reading list
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