Bioinformatics Tools Praktikum
| Teachers | Mohamed El-Hadidi, Anna Gorska, Rewati Tappu, Prof. Daniel Huson |
| Registration | E-Mail to: Mohamed El-Hadidi |
| Time and place | 10 March - 21 March, 2014, 9-17h, C311, Sand 14 |
| Signup meeting | Monday, 11th November, 15:30h, C310a |
| Module | MSc Bioinformatics, Practical Bioinformatics, MSc Informatics, Informatics module |
| Campus | http://campus.verwaltung.uni-tuebingen.de/20132d94839 |
| Language | English |
Computers
Please bring along your own laptops to use as X-terminals.
All computations will be performed on a dedicated server (osa4) which you will be able to login to from your laptop.
You will receive login info a week or two before the course so that you can make sure that your laptop allows you to access the server.
Description
In the first part of this course you will learn to use a number of fundamental concepts and tools for genomic and metagenomic data, including:
- file formats, FastA, FastQ and SAM,
- sequence assembly (e.g. Velvet),
- short read alignment (Bowtie2 and Tablet).
- sequence preprocessing,
- sequence comparison and BLAST post-processing,
- genome browsers, MEGAN,
- taxonomic analysis of 16S data and
- functional analysis of metagenome data.
In the second part of the course you will use some of the introduced tools to perform a complete analysis of a mystery dataset.
Grading
Your grade will be based on the following:
- a lab journal that documents and discusses results of the day
- 3 short talks (approximately 10 min)
- a written summary of the course (2-3 pages)
- your participation
Requirements for admission
This course is for MSc and Diploma students. The lectures "Algorithms in Bioinformatics I and II" or "Bioinformatics I", "Genomics and Metagenomes" are recommended. Knowledge of Java or C++ and a scripting language (Python, Perl, bash, ...) is required.
Course language
the teaching language is English