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Introduction to Bioinformatics course 2004
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Schedule and teachers
Location: rooms INR219 (theory) and INN218 (exercises), Informatics Dept., EPFL, Lausanne
(The following schedule may be modified)
| Time | Topic | Teacher |
| Mo Sept 6 | DAY 1 | |
| 9:15 9:30-10:30 |
Welcome Address Theory: General Introduction |
Laurent Falquet |
| 10:30-13:00 | Exercises: little web surf, EMBnet resources, other sites |
Staff |
| 13:45-15:00 | Theory: Biological Databases |
Marie-Claude Blatter |
| 15:00-18:00 | Exercises: Internet hunt |
Staff |
| Tu Sept 7 | DAY 2 | |
| 8:30-10:30 | Theory: Sequence comparisons: basic methods, scoring matrices, dot plots |
Volker Flegel |
| 10:30-13:00 | Exercises: Pairwise sequence comparisons, dotlet |
Staff |
| 13:45-15:00 | Theory: Sequence comparisons: comparisons to databases (BLAST, FASTA) |
Volker Flegel |
| 15:00-18:00 | Exercises: Database searches |
Staff |
| 19:00 | Social Dinner | |
| We Sept 8 | DAY 3 | |
| 8:30-10:30 | Theory: EST clustering |
Vassilios Ioannidis |
| 10:30-13:00 | Exercises: EST clustering |
Staff |
| 13:45-15:30 | Theory: Multiple alignments |
Laurent Falquet |
| 15:30-18:00 | Exercises: Multiple alignments |
Staff |
| Th Sept 9 | DAY 4 | |
| 8:30-10:30 | Theory: Patterns, Sequence motifs, and profiles. |
Marco Pagni |
| 10:30-13:00 | Exercises: Web tools for creating and finding motifs, pattern searches, using profiles Hits and PSI-BLAST |
Staff |
| 13:45-15:30 | Theory: Predicting genes and splice junctions. |
Lorenzo Cerutti |
| 15:30-18:00 | Exercises: Gene prediction |
Staff |
| Fr Sept 10 | DAY 5 | |
| 8:30-10:30 |
Protein function prediction and EMBOSS |
Laurent Falquet |
| 10:30-13:00 | Resolution of users problems | Staff |
| 13:45-18:00 | Presentations of users problems (bring your sequences!!) Discussion: Termination of exercises and users problems End of the course. Farewell. |
Laurent Falquet Vassilios IoannidisStaff |