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1. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE
A. Basic information
Name of course
Study level
Unit running the study
programme
Study programme
Speciality
Name of teacher (s) and
his academic degree
Introductory courses
Prerequisites
Biological and bioinformatic databases
Second degree
Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, Department of Genetic and
Basic of Animal Breeding
Beata Sitkowska PhD , Ewa Grochowska PhD
Genetics, chemistry, biochemistry
Basic knowledge in biology, genetics and in IT
B. Semester/week schedule of classes
Semester
Lectures
Classes
summer
Laboratories
Project
Seminars
2
Field
exercises
ECTS
4
2. EFFECTS OF EDUCATION (acc. to National Qualifications Framework)
Knowledge
On successful completion of the course student knows the most important
biological and bioinformatics databases and know effective searching techniques
in this databases.
Student is able to analyze the bioinformatics databases and use different
searching techniques. Student is able to use his knowledge about bioinformatics
to solve different problems about disease, mutation and genes.
Student updates the knowledge of bioinformatics and biological databases, and is
aware of update their knowledge throughout their lives.
Skills
Competences
3. TEACHING METHODS
Presentations, exercise
4. METHODS OF EXAMINATION
Two written tests
5. SCOPE
Laboratories
Content of biological databases. Structure of the most important bioinformatics
databases (NCBI, ENSEMBL), different effective searching techniques in this
databases (genes, genomes, biological projects). Methods of sequences searching:
sequences comparison and matching. DNA sequences and proteins analysis. Using
advanced site search tool from the NCBI, ENSEMBL and EBI websites. Basics of
phylogenetic analyses.
6. LITERATURE
Basic literature 1. Baxevanis, A. D., Ouellette, B. F., 2004. Bioinformatics: a practical guide to the
analysis of genes and proteins (Vol. 43). John Wiley & Sons.
2. Xiong, J., 2006. Essential bioinformatics. Cambridge University Press.
3. Higgs P.W., Attwood T.K., 2007. Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution. Wiley.
Supplementary 1. Mount, David W., 2004. Sequence and genome analysis. Bioinformatics: Cold
literature
Spring Harbour Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbour, 2.
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/training-tutorials/
3. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/
4. http://www.ensembl.org/index.html