International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Practical Course “Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in MolecularBiology”

14-23 July 1993, Trieste, Italy

Organizers: Sándor Pongor

Lecturers:

• Amos Bairoch, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Dennis Benson, NCBI-NIH, Bethesda, USA
• Martin Bishop,Medical Research Council, HGMP Cambridge, UK
• Mikls Cserz, ICGEB Trieste
• Reinhard Doelz, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland
• David Judge, University of Cambridge, UK
• Jack Leunissen, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Peter Rice, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
• Cecilia Saccone, University of Bari, Italy
• Gyorgy Simon, ICGEB, Trieste

Topics:

• Introduction to Computer Operating Systems
• Computer Communications, networking, File Transfer
• Electronic Mail, Bulletin Boards
• Molecular Biology Databases
• Sequence Homology Searches, Alignments
• Multiple Alignment, PCR Primer Design
• Sequence patterns, Distant Protein Homologies
• Molecular Evolution: Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects
• Genome Projects