Basic Bioinformatics
TeachersASAHINA, Masashi
Grade, SemesterYear 3 1st semest [Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering]
CategorySpecial Subjects
Elective, CreditsElective 2credit
 Syllabus Number5K254

Course Description

This class will provide an essential background on bioinformatics, basic techniques for database and/or web-tool analysis, using PubMed, CLUSTALW, BLAST, PSORT, SOSUI, KEGG, and GO, etc.
Covered topics include databases of life science journals, sequence, structure and function databases of DNA and protein molecules, advanced sequence and structure alignment methods, database of functions and utilities of the biological system, and Gene ontology.

Course Objectives

This is a hands-on, project-oriented class.
The aims of this course are to gain essential background on bioinformatics and basic techniques to identify, obtain, and analyze research information on molecular biology by using Internet tools.

Grading Policy

Progress report and Take-home Examination(50%), Practical Test(50%).

Textbook and Reference

KindTitleAuthorPublisher
TextbookA Handout and resources will be provided throughout the course using LMS.
ReferencesN/A

Requirements(Assignments)

To Be Announced.

Note

N/A

Schedule

1Introduction
2CiNii, IPDL
3PubMed
4NCBI,DDBJ
5CLUSTALW,TreeView
6BLAST
7BLASTN
8BLASTP
9BLASTX,TBLASTN
10PSI-BLAST,PHI-BLAST
11PSORT,SOSUI,TMHMM
12GO,GEO,KEGG
13Gene Ontology
14Entrez、GenomeNET, etc.
15Final Exam and its review in practice