Course Title
Introductory Course to Bioinformatics
Coordinator(s) email and phone
Bioinformatics, Computational Analysis & Data Management (BAC) Unit
Mail: bioinforma@szn.it – Phone: 081 5833452
Responsible of BAC: Prof. Maria Luisa Chiusano
Mail: chiusano@unina.it – Phone: 081 5833452
Course description
This is an introductory course in bioinformatics. It provides an overview of current methodologies in bioinformatics, from basic data analyses to omics. Practice sessions on basic sequence data analyses will be included. Selected examples of bioinformatics approaches and pipelines for more complex analyses will be presented.
Suggested reading material
Basic knowledge in Molecular Biology.
List of faculty members/organizers
Prof. Maria Luisa Chiusano
Dr. Luca Ambrosino
Dr. Pasquale De Luca
Dr. Michael Tangherlini
Dr. Luciano Bosso
Dr. Marco Miralto
Logistic (e.g. where will the course take place)
The Course will be held in the Conference Room of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121, Naples (Italy).
A fully charged laptop with a web browser is required. The metabarcoding/metagenomics sessions need that the laptop should be equipped with R, possibly RStudio (both at last version available) with Bioconductor, phyloseq, ANCOMBC, tidyverse, vegan and ggpubr packages.
Eventual request of support from SZN Units and Offices
We require the technical support of SIST unit to organize the seminars in the Conference Room of Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples
Timetable of the course
Monday 9th May:
10:00-12:30 Maria Luisa Chiusano
Introduction
Overview and basic concepts
14:00-16:30 Maria Luisa Chiusano/Luca Ambrosino
Sequence Similarity and Molecular databases
Theory and practice
Tuesday 10th May:
10:00-12:30 Luca Ambrosino
Structure and functional annotation
Theory and practice
14:00-16:30 Luca Ambrosino
Introduction to Protein Structure Bioinformatics
Wednesday 11th May:
10:00-12:30 Pasquale De Luca/Luca Ambrosino
Introduction to NGS technologies
14:00-16:30 Luca Ambrosino
Genomics and Trascriptomics data analyses
Thursday 12th May:
10:00-12:30 Michael Tangherlini
Principles of metagenomics/metabarcoding data analysis
14:00-16:30 Michael Tangherlini
Example of metagenomics/metabarcoding pipeline
Friday 13th May:
10:00-12:30 Luciano Bosso/Maria Luisa Chiusano
Data Sharing for Synergistic Efforts
Presentation of BAC Services and People