General Subject:	Practical informatics
Tutors:	Tobias Dezulian, Christian Rausch und Prof. D. Huson
Time:	September 25 - Oktober 6 2006, 9:00-17:00
Amount:	4 SWS, examinable: 2 SWS
Location:	Computer room C311
Office hours:	by appointment
Home page:	http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/teaching/ss05/tool/welcome.html
Enrolement:	dezulian@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de with indication of complete name and matricle number

Description:

In this tutorial we want to look at several software tools that are widely used at the moment.
E.g.: Programs for sequence comparison (pairwise and multiple alignments, e.g. ClustalW, T-Coffee), programs for phylogenetic reconstruction (e.g. Phylip, SplitsTree), database search (e.g. BLAST, HMMer), comparative sequence assembly (OSLay), Gene finding (e.g. genscan) and others.

Requirements for admission:

completed Vordiplom Bioinformatik, the lectures "Algorithms in Bioinformatics I and II" are recommended.

Course language

The teaching language is German or English if any participant does not understand German.
For written documents (hand-outs, protocols etc.) English is recommended.

Day	Topic
1	Sequence analysis with the EMBOSS package Working material: pUC19.seq: sequence of a coloning vector in gcg format Exercise: A study of a human protein