Bioinformatics, AI, Genomics, Proteomics and Transcriptomics
Protein Secondary Structure Prediction-Background theory The secondary structures imply the hierarchy by providing repeating sets of interactions between functional groups…
Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a moonshot for biology that aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the…
The Human Metabolome Database or HMDB (www.hmdb.ca) is a piece of web-enabled metabolomic information containing comprehensive information regarding human metabolites…
What is Biological Pathway? A biological pathway is a series of interactions among molecules in a cell that leads to…
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a very versatile gene amplification method that has brought a tremendous…
Introduction The Machine Learning field evolved from the broad field of Artificial Intelligence, which aims to mimic intelligent abilities of…
Installing linux on windows-bioinformatics analysis Virtual Machine (VM) VM is a completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal…
BIOINFORMATICS FOR METABOLOMICS Metabolomics generates large amounts of data like other functional genomics research. It is a clear challenge for…
Motif A short (usually not more than 20 amino acids) conserved sequence of biological significance. Motif are of two types…
Homolog, ortholog and Paralog-Bioinformatics Both concepts are illustrated by the gene trees above (a gene tree is…
What is BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)? In bioinformatics, BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) is an algorithm for…
The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce students to the frequently used tools for Next Generation Sequenceing (NGS) analysis…
Basic Linux/Unix Command for bioinformatics The objective of this activity is to promote understanding of basic UNIX commands. It is…
Amino acids play a central role in the building block of protein. The primary structure of the protein is determined…
In bioinformatics a dot plot is a graphical method that allows the comparison of two biological sequences and identify regions…
Theory behind physiochemical characterization and Importance of identification Physiochemical characterization is very important to characterize specific proteins. Isoelectric point Background…
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal,…
Limitations of Bioinformatics databases Based on their contents, biological databases can be roughly divided into three categories: primary databases, secondary…
What is metagenomics? “Metagenome” used by Handelsman et al., in 1998 to describe “collective genomes of soil microflora” Metagenomics is…
Bioinformatic tools are software programs that are designed for extracting the meaningful information from the mass of molecular biology /…