Target audience: postgrad or PhD Students
This course focuses on genomic sequencing.
Topics covered:
- The changing landscape of genomics: From Sanger sequencing to Next Generation Sequencing
- Overview of Next Generation Sequencing platforms and their methodology
- Targeted resequencing
- Alignment, variant calling and...
Scientific topics: Rare diseases
Keywords: Rare Diseases & Research
Resource type: e-learning
Online course on the landscape of translational medicine
An online course for the next generation of translational scientists (PhDs, Postdocs and MDs) is touching upon key aspects of translational research and medicines development. You will learn more about target validation, predictive models,...
Scientific topics: Rare diseases
Keywords: Rare Diseases & Research
Resource type: e-learning, Webinar
eLearning course about the importance of good research data management (RDM).
The Danish National Forum for Data Management and the Danish Universities have developed the eLearning course “Research Data Management”. The course is divided into 3 independent modules : Introduction; FAIR...
Scientific topics: Rare diseases
Keywords: Rare Diseases & Research
Resource type: e-learning
Materials from the ELIXIR workshop “Galaxy Proteomics workshop Prague 2018”, Oct 4-5 2018 at the IOCB, Prague, Czech Republic
Scientific topics: Proteomics
Keywords: Galaxy, training, proteomics, eLearning, EeLP
Resource type: course materials, Training materials, Slides
Clinical Bioinformatics I is a 10 credit module of the new MSc in Clinical Bioinformatics, delivered by Nowgen/NGRL and the University of Manchester in the UK. Clinical Bioinformatics is one of the streams of the NHS Scientific Training Programme (STP). The programme is a mixture of work...
Keywords: Clinical bioinformatics, Genomics, Introduction bioinformatics
This presentation examines the available in silico tools for protein structure and function prediction. It examines the major protein family databases (PROSITE, PRINTS, Pfam, etc.), and explores why tools like PSI-BLAST, while convenient and easy to use, may not always give optimal results. The...
Keywords: Expert systems, Genequiz, Protein family characterisation, Protein family databases, Protein sequence analysis, Psi blast
This presentation introduces the background to the InterPro database: what it is, where it came from, and what was the vision behind its creation. It examines in particular whether the database has evolved in line with its original vision, and asks whether the resource is still fit for purpose.
Keywords: Integrated diagnostic tools, Protein family characterisation, Protein sequence analysis
A presentation designed to introduce the concept of protein family analysis and characterisation using motif-based methods, with a particular focus on protein fingerprinting. Following a general introduction to sequence analysis, and the fingerprint approach, specific examples are given to...
Keywords: Functional diagnosis, Protein family characterisation, Protein sequence analysis