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Bioinformatics and Advanced Molecular
Biology Techniques
January 3-5, 2001, The City College
of CUNY, New York, NY
workshop presented by:
SWBIC
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The Bioinformatics and Advanced Molecular Biology Techniques
workshop was held at the City College of CUNY campus on January
3-5, 2001. It attracted university faculty, staff and graduate
students in the areas of biology, molecular biology, biochemistry,
microbiology and immunology, as well as faculty, staff and graduate
students from other regional universities. The workshop provided
an overview of bioinformatics, advanced molecular biology
techniques, and the bioinformatics/computational molecular biology
tools available for use over the Internet.
The workshop enabled participants to:
- become familiar with the most commonly used nucleic acid
and protein databases and analysis tools on the Internet.
- participate in hands-on computer labs to practice the use
of these tools.
- learn skills that will allow them to explore and exploit
the more specific tools that may be useful to their own projects.
The workshop agenda is available to view to the specific topics
areas presented along with the days and times of each presentation.
Wednesday, January 3, 2001 |
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8:30 - 8:35 |
Opening Remarks and Introductions |
Sherri Clark |
8:35 - 8:45 |
Workshop Overview |
Sherri Clark |
8:45 - 10:00 |
Biological Information Review |
Rick Bernstein |
10:00- 10:20 |
Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Tools |
John Spalding
Sherri Clark |
11:00 - 12:30 |
Computer Lab:
Information and Sequence Searches
Sequence Data Manipulation
Basic BLAST
Survey Bioinformatics Sites/Tools |
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1:30 - 2:15 |
DNA Sequencing Techniques and Project Management |
Pete Lammers |
2:15 - 2:45 |
Whole Genome Sequencing: Assembly & Web-Based Viewers |
Pete Lammers |
3:00- 3:55 |
Sequence Similarity Searching |
Sherri Clark |
4:10 - 5:45 |
Computer Lab:
Genome Information Viewing Tools
Sequence Similarity Searching with:
- Advanced BLAST
- FASTA
- Smith-Waterman
- PSI-BLAST
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Thursday, January 4, 2001 |
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8:15 - 9:15 |
High Throughput Biology: The "Big Picture" |
Pete Lammers |
9:15 - 10:15 |
Structure and Function of DNA, RNA and Protein |
Rick Bernstein |
10:35 - 12:00 |
Computer Lab:
Sequence Structre Function Searches/Function Relationships |
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1:30 - 2:30 |
Multiple Sequence Alignment |
John Spalding |
2:30 - 3:45 |
Phylogenetics |
Stuart Brown |
4:00 - 5:30 |
Computer Lab:
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Molecular Phylogenetics |
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Friday, January 5, 2001 |
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8:15 - 9:30 |
Protein Structure Display and Manipulation |
Rick Bernstein
John Spalding |
9:50 - 11:30 |
Computer Lab:
Structure Display and Manipulation |
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1:00 - 2:00 |
Predicting Protein Structure |
Rick Bernstein |
2:00 - 2:30 |
Using Bioinformatics Tools on Local Computers |
John Spalding |
2:50 - 4:30 |
Computer Lab:
Structure Prediction Review and Practice |
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4:30 - 4:45 |
Closing Remarks and Evaluation |
Sherri Clark |
Evaluations indicated that the majority of the participants
felt the workshop was either "excellent" or "good".
The following are comments from participants regarding the workshop:
- "Very informative, Excellent workshop!!"
- "This workshop was extremely helpful in introducing
Bioinformatics applications."
- "Your setups were helpful. I had no problem following
as an engineer."
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