Bioinformatics

Authored by Dr. R. L. Bernstein of San Francisco State University, while on sabbatical at SWBIC and incorporate SWBIC resources and materials.

Presentations are suitable for introductory upper division or graduate courses in bioinformatics and are organized for lecture or reference.

Presentation Topic	Course Week	Number of Slides	Class Use
What is Bioinformatics?	1	57	Lecture
Molecular Biology Review	1	63	Reference/Homework
Bioinformatics Web Sites, Servers, and Databases	1	49	Lecture
Structure and Function of DNA, RNA, and Protein	2	41	Lecture
Sequence Searching with BLAST	2	32	Lecture
Pairwise Sequence Comparison and Alignment	3	34	Lecture
Sequence Similarity Searching and Matching	3	51	Lecture
Protein Structure Display and Manipulation	4	35	Lecture
Multiple Sequence Alignment	5	38	Lecture
Protein Sequence Motifs and Patterns	6	40	Lecture
Hidden Markov Models: Finding Remote Homologs	7	26	Reference/Homework
Introduction to Genomics	7	Incomplete	Lecture
Human Genome Web Sites and Servers	8	66	Reference
DNA Informatics	8	Incomplete	Lecture
Structural Genomics	8	Incomplete	Lecture
Complete Genomic DNA Sequences	9	74	Reference/Homework
Predicting 2D Structure of Protein and RNA	9	41	Lecture
Predicting 3D Structures of Proteins	10	34	Lecture
Functional Genomics	11	Incomplete	Lecture
High Throughput Biology and Molecular Microarrays	12	52	Lecture
Molecular Phylogenetics	13	67	Lecture
Molecular Clocks	13	22	Reference/Homework
PCR and Primer Design	13	24	Reference/Homework
Human Genes and Genome	14	82	Lecture
Genome Sequencing Projects	14	85	Reference/Homework
Complete Human Genome Sequence	15	73	Reference/Homework
Human Genome and Mapping	15	66	Reference/Homework
DNA Web Sites and Servers	15	54	Reference/Homework
Unix, PERL, and Database Architecture	15	Incomplete	Lecture