Bio-informatics for dummies (Basic) (Friday February 8th 2019)

An informatics system has become an essential part of every laboratory, imagine your workplace without the computers... Both in research laboratories and hospitals the use of bioinformatics for data storage, analysis and automation purposes has been clearly increasing. This workshop aims to introduce some basic bioinformatics concepts for laboratory technicians.

Presentation:

• Workshop Bioinformatics for dummies - MB&C2019.pdf

Data:

• unknown human nucleotide sequence.fasta
• HBB multiple sequence alignment.fasta

Important databases:

• NCBI Gene
• NCBI Nucleotide
• NCBI UniGene
• UniProt
• NCBI dbSNP

Tools:

• Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (NCBI BLAST)
• Multiple Sequence Alignment (MUSCLE)
• 1000 Genomes Browser
• Variation Viewer
• Variant Effect Predictor (VEP)