The course sets out to introduce an extensive range of computing
facilities vital for molecular biological research. This will be
acheived primarily through "hands on" exercises based around an
investigation of a well documented human disease. How information can
be obtained both by analysis of raw sequence data and by interrogation
of information resources will be demonstrated.
Objectives
The course is a user course. How to use the various tools is thus
the prime objective. However, where it is useful, the operation of the
programs will be discussed as far as is required. Participants will
know how to set up the programs in an informed fashion, and to fully
understand the output generated. On completion of this 5 day long
training, they will also know how to implement this methodology
elsehwere, using public domain software and data resources.
The course will provide participants with an awareness of a wide
range of bioinformatics tools and sufficient experience to use those
tools in basic investigations.
Target Audience
This course is intended for those wishing to investigate how they might
begin to exploit the ever expanding abundance of computing resources
for molecular biologists.
Course Pre-requisites
Basic understanding of molecular biology and no particular computing expertise will be assumed.
