Keywords: Populus-tremula or Sequence analysis
This quick tour provides a brief introduction to MGnify - a free resource for analysis, visualisation and discovery of microbiome (metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, amplicon and assembly) datasets.
This course is suitable those with an undergraduate degree in a life science subject would be an...
Scientific topics: Metagenomics
Keywords: Metagenomics, Sequence analysis, MGnify, Microbiology
Resource type: Tutorial
This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces simple bioinformatics approaches for database searching and sequence analysis. A ‘mystery’ gene is used as an exemplar: we first characterise the gene, then use it to explore the impact of gene loss in...
Scientific topics: Sequence analysis
Keywords: Basic bioinformatics, Basic linux commands, Bioinformatics schools, Gene loss, Genetic mutation, Raspberry pi computers, Sequence analysis, Sequence database searching, Training materials
This presentation aims to provide a basic understanding of the range of contexts in which protein sequence alignments are used and are useful, focusing on the importance of sequence similarities and differences, and what they tell us. Overall, the objective is to offer different perspectives and...
Keywords: Multiple sequence alignment, Protein sequence analysis, Sequence analysis
An introduction to multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) for bench biologists delivered as part of the EMBL Australia Masterclass on Protein Sequence Analysis http://oz-masterclass.wikispaces.com/ . Focuses on describing: the "anatomy" of a sequence alignment; two alternative interpretations of...
Keywords: Multiple sequence analysis, Protein structure, Sequence analysis