Course Information
This series of three bioinformatics mini-courses will introduce you to a broad scope of bioinformatics tools, providing both theory and practical applications. The courses are self-contained and thus you can take any combination of the three courses. Approximately half of each two-hour session will be devoted to lecture-style instruction to provide you with the necessary bioinformatics skills. The second half of each session will focus on “hands-on” experience to exercise these skills.

During each session, exercises related to the material discussed in the lecture will provide the opportunity to apply the practical bioinformatics tools.

Laptop computers will be available for use during the class sessions.

Who Should Take this Class?
This course is appropriate for lab biologists or lab managers with a good understanding of molecular biology. Familiarity with web-based bioinformatics tools is a plus, but not a requirement. These courses will cover some of the same material as in our previous lecture style courses – both the 10-week course in 2002 and the 2-day course in 2003. However, these mini-courses will be geared towards practical application of bioinformatics tools.

Course Objectives
Each course will expose you to different bioinformatics tools.
• Learn the key methods and tools used in bioinformatics
• Be prepared to use bioinformatics in your own work
• Build a solid foundation and acquire the vocabulary you need to
supervise or to communicate with others who use these tools

Developing Bioinformatics Tools (Gibas)
Bioinformatics (Mount)

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