What is Bioinformatics? - From NCBI
Bioinformatics is the field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge into a single discipline. The ultimate goal of the field is to enable the discovery of new biological insights as well as to create a global perspective from which unifying principles in biology can be discerned. There are three important sub-disciplines within bioinformatics:
- the development of new algorithms and statistics with which to assess relationships among members of large data sets
- the analysis and interpretation of various types of data including nucleotide and amino acid sequences, protein domains, and protein structures
- the development and implementation of tools that enable efficient access and management of different types of information.
Online Lectures
S-Star.org -
(video and slides, 10+ lectures, Great!!!)
Sequence Analysis:
Blast information - From NCBI
BioComputing
Hypertext Coursebook - From University of Bielefeld
Structural Prediction:
CMBI
homology modelling course
The PredictProtein server
The PSIPRED Protein Structure
Prediction Server
THREADER - Predicting the
fold of a protein.
SWISS-MODEL -
An Automated Comparative Protein Modelling Server.
PROSITE - Database of protein
families and domains.
Review Article:
Cross-Species
Sequence Comparisons: A Review of Methods and Available Resources - Genome
Research, 2003
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