A.A. 2024-2025
MOLECULAR METHODS AND BIOINFORMATICS Master degree in Evolutionary Biology, School of Science, University of Padova
Teachers: Prof. STEFANIA BORTOLUZZI, Prof. GIANLUCA OCCHI
Info sul corso
Course presentation
Program and materials of the course
PART OF BIOINFORMATICS
Teacher: Prof. STEFANIA BORTOLUZZI
Collaborators: Dr. Enrico Gaffo, Dr. Silvia Orsi
| LECTURES | MATERIALS | |
| Introduction to the course | Slides | |
| Database and data retrieval (biosequences, secondary databases, knowledgegebases, molecular structures). | Slides | |
| Sequence alignment, scoring matrices, exact and euristico methods. Similarity search and BLAST. | Slides Slides |
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| Multiple sequence alignment: from classic progressive methods to recent advances. | Slides | |
| Molecular structure prediction. Protein and RNA folding. Fold predizione approaches (ab inizio, comparative modeling and threading). Neural networks. | Slides | |
| Genome sequencing and annotation. Genomic databases. Second and third generation methods for massive DNA sequencing (NGS). Genome sequencing (de novo) e resequencing. Introduction to NGS data analysis. | Slides | |
| RNA-seq: transcriptome sequencing and analysis in model and non-model species | Slides | |
| PRACTICAL SESSIONS | MATERIALS | |
| I Bioinformatics practical session | Guide | |
| II Bioinformatics practical session | Guide | |
| III Bioinformatics practical session | Guide | |
| IV Bioinformatics practical session | Guide | |
| V Bioinformatics practical session | Guide | |
| VI Bioinformatics practical session | Guide | |
| VII Bioinformatics practical session |
Guide |
PARTE COMUNE
| JOURNAL CLUB | MATERIALS | |
| Tuesday 3 and 10 December 2024 | FORM for the JC organization (Student groups, dates, rules and selected papers) |