Bioinformatics for biologists I and II
General information
This lecture course, accompanied by a practical exersise, is being offered both in winter and summer semester in Weihenstephan. It is suitable for biology students of the 5th semester and higher.
Recommended reading
- Zvelebil, M. and Baum, J. Introduction to bioinformatics. Garland Science, 2007.
- Mount, D. Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; 2 edition, 2004.
List of topics in winter semester
- Nucleic acids
- Protein structure
- Sequence alignment
- Sequence motifs
- Database searches
- Protein folding and structure prediction
- Homology modeling
- Protein structure comparison
- Structure classification
- Secondary structure prediction
- Prediction of transmembrane regions
- Genome analysis
- Gene prediction
- RNA structure prediction
List of topics in summer semester
- Low complexity sequences
- Disordered proteins
- Protein interactions
- Molecular evolution
- Structure-function relationships in proteins
- Functionally important residues
- SNPs
- Alternative splicing
- microRNAs
- Annotation, ontologies
- Threading
- Repeats
- Isochores
- Repeats
- Pseudogenes
- Operons