• Level of education

    two years of postsecondary education

  • ECTS

    2 credits

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Science

Description

1- Linux basics (1.5 hours lecture + 3 hours tutorial): Basic commands for navigating Linux and understanding the logic of this language. Short exercises on extracting information in bash/shell. Element revisited for the analysis of alignment files.

2- Databases (3 hours of lectures + 4.5 hours of tutorials): knowledge of the main bibliographic and biological databases (NCBI, Ensembl, Galaxie, etc.). Ability to perform relevant and effective queries, exploit, sort, and describe different formats.

3- Sequence analysis (1.5 hours lecture + 4.5 hours tutorial): Sequence alignment and comparison with a brief introduction to phylogenetics (dot plot, Blast, etc.)

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Objectives

- Fundamentals of essential computer tools in modern biology

- Learning how to use a common query language (basics)

- Analysis and extraction of biological data made available to the scientific community on the web

- Searching for scientific information and biological data to understand a project

 

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Teaching hours

  • BioInfo - TutorialTutorials12 p.m.
  • Bioinformatics - CMLecture6 hours

Mandatory prerequisites

PIX certification (L1-S2 or L2-S3)

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