IITB QIP Short Term Course on Bioinformatics | December 29, 2013 to January 2, 2014

QIP Short Term Course on Bioinformatics

December 29, 2013 to January 2, 2014

Organized By

Department of Chemical Engineering
Office of Continuing Education & Quality Improvement Programmes
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai – 400 076

Course outline

Brief introduction to concepts of molecular evolution

Introduction to molecular databases

Use of BLAST as a database query tool

o How the algorithm works
o Molecular basis for BLAST

Gene comparison

o Pairwise and multiple sequence alignment
o Phylogenetic analysis

Protein family membership

o TIGRfam
o Protein Family Database (Pfam)
o COG

Cellular localization prediction

o Transmembrane Helices Hidden Markov Model (TMHMM)
o Signal Peptide (SignalP)
o PSORT, Phobius

Metabolic pathway prediction

o Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)
o MetaCyc

Integration of database query and gene/genome comparisons into undergraduate
curricula

Target Audience

Faculty from the Engineering / Biotechnology / Life sciences curricula and researchers from Industry

Brochure: www.iitb.ac.in/~qip/QIP-Brochure-PW-2013-A.pdf