OBJECTIVES

The participants will be provided with end-to-end hands-on training, along with introduction to basic concepts, in using popular tools and techniques for sequence analysis, structure analysis, function prediction, biological database searching, "omics" data analysis, pathway analysis, data visualization, data curation and integration, linux, R, perl and scripting basics.

Hands-on Skills/Tools taught:

Databases: NCBI-ENTREZ, UniProt, PDB, STRING, others
Sequence analysis and function predictions: EMBOSS suite & others
Local Alignment: EMBOSS-WATER
Global Alignment: EMBOSS-NEEDLE
Similarity search: NCBI BLAST, PSI-BLAST
Multiple sequence alignment: Clustal Omega, MUSCLE, MAFFT
Phylogenetics: MrBayes, MEGA, FigTree and Dendroscope
Motif finding, analysis: MEME suite
Structure prediction, visualization & analysis: PyMOL, Chimera, iTASSER
Transcriptome analysis: NCBI GEO, Tuxedo tools, R
Enrichment analysis: DAVID
Pathway analysis: Cytoscape
Programming: Linux, R, Perl, Python
Platforms: EMBOSS, UGENE, H2O, Galaxy