Biotechnology/ Bioinformatics Summer Training -2011
Duration - Basic Camp 21 days Fee - Basic Camp - 3000/ - Rs
Advance Camp - 30 - 45 days Advance Camp - 4000/ Rs.
Week 1
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Introduction to basic bioinformatics terminologies
Application area of Bioinformatics
Various biological databases
Biological databases’ compatible formats
Importance of web and internet in bioinformatics research
Hands on session based on the theory classes
Week 2
Introduction to sequence types in bioinformatics
Protein sequence and nucleotide sequence databases
Approach to sequence searching in bioinformatics
Similarity and homology searching methods
Sequence alignment algorithms
Introduction similarity searching using BLAST / Fasta
Multiple Sequence Searching
Multiple sequence alignment approaches
Hands on session based on the theory classes
Week 3
Introduction to protein structure databases
Introduction to structure visualization of protein’s structure
Various protein structure visualization tools
Introduction to microarray techniques and associated analytical methods
Introduction to in silico primer designing approach
Introduction to various online biological tools used in computational biology application
Hands on session based on the theory classes
Week 4
Introduction to the concept of homology modeling
Homology modeling tool: Modeler
Introduction to the concept of drug designing
Overview to the process of drug designing
Introduction to validation of protein structures’ validation using RC Plot
Hands on session based on the theory classes.
