International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Practical Course “Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in MolecularBiology”

Date: 13-22 July 1994, Trieste, Italy
Organizers: Sándor Pongor

Lecturers:

• Amos Bairoch, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
• Martin Bishop, Medical Research Council, HGMP, Cambridge, UK
• David Judge, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,UK
• Jack Leunissen, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Cecilia Saccone, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Topics:

• Introduction to Computer Operating Systems
• Computer Communications, Networking, File Transfer
• Eletronic Mail, Bulletin Boards
• Molecular Biology Databases
• Sequence Homology Searches, Alignment, PCR Primer Design
• Sequence Patterns, Dstant Protein Homologies
• Molecular Evolution: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects
• Genome Projects