Level of study
BAC +2
ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
1- Linux basics (1,5h CM + 3hTD): Basic commands to navigate under Linux and understand the logic of this language. Small exercises to extract information in bash/shell. Element used for the analysis of alignment files.
2- Database (3h CM + 4,5hTD): know the main bibliographic and biological databases (NCBI, Ensembl, Galaxie...). Know how to make relevant and efficient queries, exploit, sort, description of the different formats
3- Sequence analysis (1,5hCM + 4,5H TD): Alignment and comparison of sequences with a small introduction to phylogeny (dot plot, Blast ...)
Objectives
- Basics on the computer tools that are essential in biology today
- Learning to use a common query language (basics)
- Analysis and extraction of biological data made available to the scientific community on the web
- Research of scientific information and biological data for the understanding of a project
Necessary pre-requisites
PIX certification (L1-S2 or L2-S3)