Lunchtime Bioinformatics Workshop Series
Join Becker Medical Library for its bioinformatics workshop series for graduate students, post docs, staff and faculty at Washington University School of Medicine. We’ll introduce different bioinformatics resources and how they might be useful in the lab.
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The flavin-binding domain of the enzyme Flavocytochrome b2 (1KBJ) – this structure was solved by the lab of F. Scott Mathews, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry. Image rendered by Jason Maynes, Ph.D., M.D. |
Spring 2009 Workshop Series Lecture Notes
Bioinformatics Workshop Series Schedule:
Week 1: Introduction
- Introduction to information – how to make sense of it all
- Good sources of information
- PubMed/myNCBI
Week 2: Databases and Database Searching
- Protein and nucleic acid databases
- Scope and organization
- Search strategies and information retrieval
Week 3: Nucleotide Sequence Analysis
- Restriction-enzyme analysis
- Primer-design
- Check for vector contamination
Week 4: Protein Sequence Analysis, Proteomics
- Motif searching, predictive methods
- Digest, physiochemical properties
Week 5: Genome Resources
- Genome browsers
- Genome pages in Entrez
- RefSeq and Genes
Week 6: Biological Pathways/Systems Biology
- Databases
- Tools and software (GeneGo, others)
- Pathway visualization
Week 7: Sequence Similarity Searching
- Using BLAST web services
- PSI-BLAST and RPS-BLAST
- Specialized BLAST pages
Week 8: Phylogenetic Analysis
- Resources for phylogenetic analysis
Week 9: Gene Expression Resources And Genotyping
- Databases and tools
- Data analysis
Week 10: Variation
- Genetic variation databases and tools
Week 11: Structure
- The Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB) and RSCB-PDB
- Introduction to Cn3D
- PubChem
Week 12: Other Interesting Resources
- Clinicaltrials.gov
- WUSM resources
For more information, contact Kristi Holmes at 314-362-4737 or holmeskr@wustl.edu.
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