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Course details
Course code: NBSS10141o16
Semester: 2016/2017 winter
Name: Basics of bioinformatics
Major: Biotechnology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 7
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 12 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Xymena Połomska
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Students are able to explore data bases with protein and genome sequences, effectively use data models from NCBI, GenBank and Génolevures. They will be able to fitting sequences, making and introducing of new sequences to data bases as well as conduct phylogenetic and comparisional analyses of genomes

Competences: Students understand data bases structure, are able to use those knowledge during sequencing analysis unknown proteins and genes

Prerequisites: mathematics, informatics, biochemistry, general microbiology, fundamental genetics, molecular biology

Course content: Fundamentals of the Internet and the electronic mail. Model of NCBI data base (PUBs, Seq-id, Biosem, Seq-annot, Seq-descr). Model of GeneBank (primary and secondary data bases, structure of the files). Introduction to sequences and their comparative analysis. Visualisation of structures. Genome mapping. FASTA. BLASTA. Probabilistic methods of genome coding region finding. Probabilistic methods of protein sequence finding. Sequences folding up. Philogenetics analysis (methodology of bulding up the dendrograms, phylogenetic software). Comparative and large-scale analyses of genomes.

Recommended literature: 1. Bioinformatyka, podręcznik do analizy genów i białek, A.D. Baxaevanisa, B.F.F. Ouellette’a, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2005; 2. Podstawy wybranych procesów biotechnologicznych, rozdział 10: Wyszukiwanie informacji w Internecie, Stanisław Radzki, praca zbiorowa pod redakcją Jana Fiedurka, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 2004; 3. internetowe bazy danych.

Assessment methods: Passing grades of laboratory course and written exam.

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