Category: bioinformatics

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 /…

The Database Industry Because of the high rate of data production and the need for researchers to have rapid access…

What is Open Reading Frame (ORF) ? The region of the nucleotide sequences from the start codon (ATG) to the…

The accurate definition of bioinformatics has always been a matter of debate. Although in narrow definition which limits analysis of…

INTRODUCTION Protein motifs are most commonly extracted from an initial multiple sequence alignment, but sometimes the training sequences are not…

 What is InterPro? InterPro is an integrative database which was established 10 years prior when the PROSITE, PRINTS, Pfam and…

The English-language neologism omics informally refers to a field of study in biology ending in -omics. Technologies that measure some…

Bioinformatics related Organizations and Associations  Associations / Organizations: AAAS American association for the advancement of science AACC American association for…

The list of Bioinformatics courses offered around the world. Reasons for constructing this site are: To show the extent of…

Bioinformatics courses in Latin America Mexico At the National Autonomous University of Mexico a doctoral program in biomedical sciences is available.  Their…

Bioinformatics courses in United States California Stanford University offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees through their Biomedical Informatics (BMI) graduate program. The University of…

Bioinformatic courses in Canada Degree Programs in Canada Numerous degree programs have been established across Canada: The University of Alberta offers four-year Biology or Computer…

Bioinformatics courses in Africa Nigeria Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria, offers MSc and PhD in Computer Science with Bioinformatics options. South…

Bioinformatics courses in Australia Since 2012, the Institute for Molecular Bioscience and the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences  (at The University of Queensland)…

Bioinformatics courses in Asia Hong Kong The Bachelor of Science degree in bioinformatics at the University of Hong Kong. India Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied…

Bioinformatics courses in Europe Austria A bioinformatics option is offered as part of degree courses at the Graz University of Technology (Technische Universität Graz)…