International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Practical Course "Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in MolecularBiology"


Date: 14-23 July 1993, Trieste, Italy
Organizers: Sándor Pongor


Lecturers:

Amos Bairoch, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dennis Benson, NCBI-NIH, Bethesda, USA
Martin Bishop,Medical Research Council, HGMP Cambridge, UK
Mikls Cserz, ICGEB Trieste
Reinhard Doelz, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland
David Judge, University of Cambridge, UK
Jack Leunissen, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Peter Rice, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Cecilia Saccone, University of Bari, Italy
Gyorgy Simon, ICGEB, Trieste

Topics:

Introduction to Computer Operating Systems
Computer Communications, networking, File Transfer
Electronic Mail, Bulletin Boards
Molecular Biology Databases
Sequence Homology Searches, Alignments
Multiple Alignment, PCR Primer Design
Sequence patterns, Distant Protein Homologies
Molecular Evolution: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects
Genome Projects