August 5, 2019
Introduction to Biological Pathway Databases
What is Biological Pathway? A biological pathway is a series of interactions among molecules in a cell that leads to…
Category: bioinformatics
July 30, 2019
Computer Primer Design-Bioinformatics
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a very versatile gene amplification method that has brought a tremendous…
July 28, 2019
Introduction to Machine learning-Bioinformatics
Introduction The Machine Learning field evolved from the broad field of Artificial Intelligence, which aims to mimic intelligent abilities of…
July 26, 2019
Installing linux on windows-bioinformatics analysis
Installing linux on windows-bioinformatics analysis Virtual Machine (VM) VM is a completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal…
July 22, 2019
Bioinformatics for metabolomics Overview
BIOINFORMATICS FOR METABOLOMICS Metabolomics generates large amounts of data like other functional genomics research. It is a clear challenge for…
July 22, 2019
Motif- Sequence & Structure motifs-Bioinformatics analysis
Motif A short (usually not more than 20 amino acids) conserved sequence of biological significance. Motif are of two types…
July 22, 2019
Homologue, orthologue and Paralogue-Bioinformatics
Homolog, ortholog and Paralog-Bioinformatics Both concepts are illustrated by the gene trees above (a gene tree is…
July 22, 2019
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) for bioinformatics
What is BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)? In bioinformatics, BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) is an algorithm for…
July 17, 2019
Linux cheat sheets-Bioinformatics/NGS analysis
The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce students to the frequently used tools for Next Generation Sequenceing (NGS) analysis…
July 16, 2019
Getting started in linux-Bioinformatics
Basic Linux/Unix Command for bioinformatics The objective of this activity is to promote understanding of basic UNIX commands. It is…
July 11, 2019
Amino acid and Pseudo-amino acid composition
Amino acids play a central role in the building block of protein. The primary structure of the protein is determined…
July 10, 2019
Interpreting dot plot-bioinformatics with an example
In bioinformatics a dot plot is a graphical method that allows the comparison of two biological sequences and identify regions…
July 9, 2019
In silico Protein physiochemical characterization-Tutorial
Theory behind physiochemical characterization and Importance of identification Physiochemical characterization is very important to characterize specific proteins. Isoelectric point Background…
July 5, 2019
Bibliographic Databases for Medical & life sciences
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal,…
June 28, 2019
Data errors in Bioinformatics databases
Limitations of Bioinformatics databases Based on their contents, biological databases can be roughly divided into three categories: primary databases, secondary…
June 28, 2019
Metagenomics – Definition, origin and uses
What is metagenomics? “Metagenome” used by Handelsman et al., in 1998 to describe “collective genomes of soil microflora” Metagenomics is…
June 24, 2019
Bioinformatics – Tools, softwares & Programmes
Bioinformatic tools are software programs that are designed for extracting the meaningful information from the mass of molecular biology /…
June 18, 2019
Biological database- Past, Present and Future
The Database Industry Because of the high rate of data production and the need for researchers to have rapid access…
June 17, 2019
Identification of gene in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes-Tutorial
What is Open Reading Frame (ORF) ? The region of the nucleotide sequences from the start codon (ATG) to the…
June 12, 2019
Current Scope of Bioinformatics in Omics era
The accurate definition of bioinformatics has always been a matter of debate. Although in narrow definition which limits analysis of…