Workshop details

Bioinformatics is here to revolutionize! Today, it is virtually impossible to imagine biological research without it. In this workshop we will present the main concepts of Bioinformatics and how it became so important for Biology. Topics like genome sequencing, biological databases and diverse algorithms for sequence analysis will be presented in order to introduce attendees with the field with traditional and modern techniques adopted by the field.

Learning objectives

• Get familiar with the history of Bioinformatics and its major landmarks;

• Understand how Bioinformatics organizes biological information;

• Explore some biological databases;

• Use retrieval systems to download databases records;

• Get an overview of DNA sequencing and sequences alignment;

• Get introduced to RNA and protein structure prediction algorithms;

• Familiarize with phylogenetics inference;

• Get introduced to complete genome sequencing projects.

Syllabus

• What is Bioinformatics?

• Bioinformatics extensions;

• Types of biological information;

• Bioinformatics vs. Computational Biology;

• Bioinformatics origins;

• First biological databases;

• Substitution matrices;

• DNA sequences collection;

• Database retrieval;

• Prime of DNA sequencing;

• Sequences alignment;

• Gene-prediction algorithms;

• Secondary RNA structure prediction;

• Phylogenetics inference;

• Protein structure prediction;

• Complete genome sequencing;

Format

• Zoom live webinar: 1h live webinar with pre-recorded presentation split in two sessions of 30min each with a break of 5min between them. Attendees are welcome to join asynchronous live group discussion (Q&A) with the speaker on Discord during and after the scheduled session.

• General discussion session: 1h Q&A recurrent pre-dated session booked for attendees of multiple slots of this workshop.

• Recorded presentation: Attendees registering using a Google e-mail account, will have private access to the recorded webinars.

• Certificate: all attendees checking-in and out of both 30min sessions will be entitled to receive a certificate of participation (PDF/PNG) that can be shared on your social media with credentials (QR-code) that can be verified on our website, with an option (extra fee) to register as a NFT asset with an unique address on the Ethereum blockchain.