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About the Course

Large-scale biology projects such as the sequencing of the human genome and gene expression surveys using RNA-seq, microarrays and other technologies have created a wealth of data for biologists. However, the challenge facing scientists is analyzing and even accessing these data to extract useful information pertaining to the system being studied. This course focuses on employing existing bioinformatic resources – mainly web-based programs and databases – to access the wealth of data to answer questions relevant to the average biologist, and is highly hands-on. Topics covered include multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetics, gene expression data analysis, and protein interaction networks, in two separate parts. The first part, Bioinformatic Methods I, dealt with databases, Blast, multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetics, selection analysis and metagenomics. This, the second part, Bioinformatic Methods II, will cover motif searching, protein-protein interactions, structural bioinformatics, gene expression data analysis, and cis-element predictions. This pair of courses is useful to any student considering graduate school in the biological sciences, as well as students considering molecular medicine. These courses are based on one taught at the University of Toronto to upper-level undergraduates who have some understanding of basic molecular biology. If you're not familiar with this, something like https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=889 might be helpful. No programming is required for this course although some command line work (though within a web browser) occurs in the 5th module. Bioinformatic Methods II is regularly updated, and was last updated for January 2025....

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Sep 7, 2015

I was a very very useful course, specially the heatmap plot generation and R language lab exercises was great!

HD

May 5, 2020

Well organized and easy to learn with good laboratory practice.

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By Raghavendra G

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Jul 25, 2020

Lectures were very informative, but some (gene expression analysis) lab exercises need more explanation

By Catalin P

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Sep 1, 2018

Quite good introductory course for Bioinformatics.

By Anne-Karina P

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Oct 29, 2015

introduction to many useful online data resources

By Ahmad S M

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Mar 30, 2024

The course is quite useful for those who have an interest to have a look on how databases are used to generate useful information. I would have loved Professor Provart to elaborate much more on some of the items mentioned throughout the course. These might require you to search for a bit, so that you could cope with it. Thank you,,

By Gábor E

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Aug 14, 2015

At first the questions were wrong, but i contacted with the professor and he corrected them.