Unit 1. Introduction to Bioinformatics

Unit 2. Databases in Bioinformatics

Unit 3. Biological Sequence Databases

Unit 4. Sequence Alignments

Unit 5. Molecular Phylogeny

Unit 6. Applications of Bioinformatics

Practicals

Anchor 1

Introduction

Branches of Bioinformatics

Aim

Scope

Research areas

Anchor 2

Intro to database

Biological Databases

Classification of DB

Database Retrieval

Anchor 3

NCBI

Tools and Databases of NCBI

Database Retrieval Tool

Sequence Submission to NCBI

BLAST

Nucleotide Database

Protein Database

Gene Expression Database

EMBL

EMBL Intro

EMBL Sequence Retrieval

Sequence Submission to EMBL

EMBL Sequence analysis tools

DDBJ

Introduction to DDBJ

Resources at DDBJ

Data Submission at DDBJ

PIR

About PIR

Resources of PIR

Databases of PIR

Data Retrieval in PIR

Swiss-Prot

Swiss-Prot Introduction

Swiss-Prot Salient Features

Anchor 4

Introduction

Concept of Alignment

MSA

CLUSTALW

Scoring Matrices

PAM

BLOSUM

Anchor 5

Methods of Phylogeny

Software

Consistency

Anchor 6

Drug Discovery

Drug Design

Microbial genome

Crop improvement

Sequence retrieval

Anchor 7

Sequence alignment