Tag: molecular evolution
A Critical Guide to InterPro
Training Material – Posted by admin2 on September 8, 2018
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides an introduction to the InterPro database, the largest, most comprehensive, integrated…
EMBO 2015
Training Material – Posted by Paul Yorke on October 8, 2015
Link to the GitHub repository containing all the training materials made available for the 2015 EMBO event held at TGAC
UPGMA Worked Example
Training Material – Posted by Richard Edwards on August 4, 2014
A walkthrough of clustering 7 biological sequences (A-G) using the Unweighted Pair-Group Method with Arithmetic mean (UPGMA) method. Note that UPGMA is actually…
BLAST and multiple sequence alignment (MSA) programs
Training Material – Posted by Patricia Palagi on April 28, 2014
Background The rapid identification of pathogens infecting livestock is essential to appropriately respond to the threat. The number and the variety of pathogen…
Phylogenetics of animal viral pathogens
Training Material – Posted by Patricia Palagi on April 28, 2014
Background The vast diversity of the pathogens affecting livestock demands a very specific diagnostic procedure in identification and characterization of each p…
Introduction to Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) and Phylogenies
Training Material – Posted by Aidan Budd on December 19, 2013
Slides used for teaching an introduction to phylogenies and MSAs in the context of phylogenies for the first day of a two-day course on MSAs at Cambridge Univer…
Understanding Multiple Sequence Alignments – Lecture Handouts & Utopia Hands-On
Training Material – Posted by Terri Attwood on December 17, 2013
This presentation aims to provide a basic understanding of the range of contexts in which protein sequence alignments are used and are useful, focusing on…
Similarity searching, multiple sequence alignment and protein families – undergraduate lab
Training Material – Posted by Bruno Gaeta on November 12, 2013
Lab 3 in a series of labs given as part of a "bioinformatics for biologists" course targeted at 2nd/3rd year undergraduates and focusing on informed u…
Multiple sequence alignment and phylogeny – undergraduate lab
Training Material – Posted by Bruno Gaeta on November 12, 2013
This is lab 4 in a series of labs given as part of an undergraduate "Bioinformatics for biologists" course delivered to 2nd and 3rd year biology and b…
Sequence comparison – undergraduate lab
Training Material – Posted by Bruno Gaeta on November 12, 2013
This is lab 2 in a series of labs developed as part of a "bioinformatics for biology undergraduates" course and targeted at 2nd and 3rd year undergrad…