Sequence Analysis: 2005

Session 1: Pairwise Alignment and Database Searching

Session 2: Sequence Patterns and Matrices

Slides: [slide show] [to print]
Exercise 1: Investigating the mechanisms of miRNA activity through pattern searching
Exercise 2: Studying transcriptional control with DNA matrices

Session 3: Genome Browsers and Comparative Genomics

Bioinformatics on hebrides and tak

Applying for a WIBR Bioinformatics account
Connecting to tak/hebrides and transferring files (including sources of software to do this)
Using X windows on tak/hebrides
Local biological tools: program list and help pages
Hebrides database list: choices for local BLAST
Tak database list: choices for local BLAST
BLAST documentation: details about running NCBI's blastall, formatdb, and fastacmd
LSF Reference Guide [contents] (commands for working on the Biocomputing Linux cluster)
EMBOSS: The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite
VNC: free X Windows system
Perl modules on tak (as of Jan 2005)
Perl modules on hebrides (as of Jan 2005)
Dotter: A graphical dot-matrix program

General Unix help