KBC/ZBINF Fundamentals of Bioinformatics

Guarantor: Marek Šebela
Lecturers: Filip Dyčka, Martin Raus
Seminar lecturer: Mária Čudejková
Lecture: 2 hours/week + seminar 2 hours/week
Credits: 5
Summer semester
Form of course completion: course credit, exam

The subject explains theoretical and practical aspects of bioinformatics. There are biological databases included as well as sequence alignment, gene and protein structures, protein structure prediction, molecular phylogenetics, genomics, proteomics and glycobiology. Students will get acquainted themselves with bioinformatic tools and they will develop skills in retrieval, processing and presentation of bioinformatic data. In addition, they become experienced in fundamental programming and script languages.

• Introduction to bioinformatics and information resources
• Working with sequences (nucleotides and amino acids)
• Sequence alignment and similarity search
• Protein structures
• RNA structures, SNPs and haplotypes
• Phylogenetics and comparative genomics
• Bioinformatics in glycobiology