Practical Bioinformatics: Play with Genes On Your Screens.
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The course Practical Bioinformatics: Play with Genes On Your Screens. is intended to teach students about the use and exploration of biological data present on online websites and tools. Bioinformatics is a cast subject include every technique involve in solving a biological problem or predicting the theoretical results. Bioinformatics is a time saving and smart approach in modern day biology & life sciences. Our aim is to make you self sufficient in using all the necessary tools and techniques regarding genetic analysis.
You will learn in this course:
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Introduction to Bioinformatics
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Important terms related to Bioinformatics
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Important database and how to use and retrieve data from them
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What are most important elements in these databases.
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How to use Bioinformatics in your research
Learn to use important Bioinformatics tools
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Know about number of important Tools used in Bioinformatics analysis of DNA and Protein (Genetics)
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Learn to find out conserved, exposed, buried, structural , functional residues in a protein
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Find out consequences of a mutation
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Classify a genetic variant as pathogenic or non pathogenic
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How to save and retrieve data from one tool and how to use this data into other software.
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Three dimensional homology Modeling of normal and mutated proteins.
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To find out physical and chemical properties of a full protein
It is time to join the course
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Bioinformatics: What is it ?Bioinformatics is the application of computational technology to handle the rapidly growing repository of information related to molecular biology. Bioinformatics combines different fields of study, including computer sciences, molecular biology, biotechnology, statistics and engineering.
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Important Terms Related to Bioinformatics
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Quiz 1It is about your general knowledge of bioinformatics and databases in previous lectures
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About NCBI (National Center For Biotechnology Information)
The NCBI houses a series of databases relevant to biotechnology and biomedicine and is an important resource for bioinformatics tools and services. Major databases include GenBank for DNA sequences and PubMed, a bibliographic database for biomedical literature. Other databases include the NCBI Epigenomics database.
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Protein Data Bank (PDB)
The Protein Data Bank is a database for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids
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UniProt
UniProt is a freely accessible database of protein sequence and functional information, many entries being derived from genome sequencing projects. It contains a large amount of information about the biological function of proteins derived from the research literature
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Quiz 2
It is a quiz about Important databases in molecular biology which you have done in this section.
