Exercises

As a hands-on practical course, we will introduce many exercises to be practiced during the course. This page collects a variety of exercises such as literature search, database query, and database search, sequence alignment, motif search, phylogenetic analysis and molecular modeling.

• Entrez – Literature search with PubMed and database query with the NCBI Entrez system.
• UniProt – Find protein sequences from the UniProt/Swiss-Prot database and browse the entries.
• Dotplot – DNA and protein sequence comparison using the dot plot approach.
• Align – Pairwise and multiple sequence alignment using both local and global algorithms.
• BLAST -Sequence similarity search against DNA and protein sequence databases.
• DNA – Analysis of DNA sequences with several bioinformatics tools.
• Protein – Analysis of protein sequences with several bioinformatics tools.
• Motif – Identification of conserved sequence motifs and domains.
• Phylogeny -Phylogenetic analysis and construction of phylogenetic tress with simple examples.
• Modeling – Analysis of three-dimensional structure of proteins and prediction of protein structures.