Biotech Summer Training, Agra at Rapture Biotech

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.