Teacher:

Paulino Gómez-Puertas. <pagomez@cbm.uam.es> <http://www.cbm.uam.es/bioweb>

Schedule: Wed. 26th & Thu. 27th, March 2008.  8:00 - 12:30

A page containing some useful links ==> 
Software to download (for courses) ==> 

• 1.- Introduction: Why Bioinformatics? [PDF]

• 2.- Databases in Molecular Biology.

 
• 3.- Sequence alignment. Database searching: Blast. Multiple sequence alignment. Alignment-based gene-detection.

 

• 4.- Protein structure databases. Visualization of 3D protein structure.

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• 5.- Nucleic acids structure: RNA and DNA.
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• 6.- Structure-function relationship. Structure prediction: Ab-initio, homology modeling and threading.
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• Textbooks:
• Lesk, A.M. "Introduction to bioinformatics" 2dn Ed., Oxford University Press, 2005.  <http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199277872/>
• Claverie, J-M & Notredame, C. "Bioinformatics for Dummies"  2nd. Ed.Wiley Publishing, INC. 2006. <http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/productCd-0470089857.html>
• Mount, D. " Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis". CSHL Press, 2004.  <http://www.bioinformaticsonline.org/>
 
• Links of interest:

• http://bioinformatics.ucsd.edu/students/courses.cfm
• http://scpd.stanford.edu/scpd/programs/certs/bioinformatics.htm
• http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/tutorials/index.html
• http://www.s-star.org/lectures.html...
 
• Evaluation: Critical comment to the following article: Rognan, D. (2007) Chemogenomic approaches to rational drug design. Br. J. Pharmacol 152: 38. Send by e-mail to <pagomez@cbm.uam.es> before April 11th.