BIOL385 - Computer Skills for Biotechnology

Section I - Essential Basics
Lecture 1	Course Introduction, Computer Basics, Internet [HTML] [PDF] Links: BioIT-World Article \| Google Features \| Google Job
Lecture 2	HTML & First Introduction to UNIX [HTML] [PDF] Links: HTML Tutorial \| Putty
Lecture 3	More on UNIX [HTML] [PDF]
Lecture 4	Perl & Other Programming Languages [HTML] [PDF] Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics [Book] [Exercises]
Lecture 5	Relational Databases [HTML] [PDF]
Section II - Introduction to Bioinformatics
Lecture 6	NCBI Entrez [HTML] [PDF] NCBI Entrez \| Pubmed Tutorial
Lecture 7	BLAST [HTML] [PDF] Links: BLAST Tutorial
Lecture 8	ORF Finder, GENSCAN & PSI-BLAST [HTML] [PDF] Links: ORF Finder \| GENSCAN
Lecture 9	Multiple Sequence Alignments with ClustalW & Protein analysis [HTML] [PDF] Links: ClustalW \| Prosite \| Pfam \| PRINTS \| Blocks \| Uniprot
Lecture 10	Bioinformatics Applications [HTML] [PDF] Links: Kicska et al., J. Biol. Chem (2002) 277 (5): 3219 - \| ActivX Biosciences \| OpenSourceLIMS.pdf
Section III - Introduction to Structural Bioinformatics
Lecture 11	The Protein Data Bank & Visualization with Rasmol [HTML] [PDF] Links: PDB \| Rasmol \| Other Graphics Tools
Lecture 12	Structure Determination & Structure/Function Assignment [HTML] [PDF]
Lecture 13	Secondary Structure Calculation & Structure Classification [HTML] [PDF] Links: DSSP paper (Kabsch & Sander, 1983) \| SCOP \| CATH \| Chime
Lecture 14	Course Presentations