Unit 1: Databases & Queries

Featured Software: BLAST

Gibas and Jambeck Chapter 1 (introduction to bioinformatics)
Gibas and Jambeck Chapter 2 (computational approaches)
Gibas and Jambeck Chapter 13 (biological databases)
BLAST tutorial on Altschul algorithm
BLAST article
Alignment approximations
CLUSTALW article
MSA heuristics
CLUSTALW tips

Exercises

Introduction to Bioinformatics
Molecular Databases and Search Tools, Section A
Molecular Databases and Search Tools, Section B
Multiple Sequence Alignment Tool, Section C

Unit Projects

What is BLAST?
A Sequence Query Project in Molecular Parasitology

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