Overview of the course syllabus:
- Basics of bioinformatics databases.
- Covers essential notions of bioinformatics flat file databases, their differences and formats.
- Introduction to EMBOSS for sequence mining and analysis.
- Covers commands like seqret, seqinfo, dottup, dotplot.
- Sequence alignment and processing with EMBOSS on the command line.
- Covers global versus local alignments, and emma.
- A brief outlook of EMBOSS web interfaces (wEMBOSS/EMBOSS explorer)
- MRS for advanced sequence/database mining
- Command line MRS
- Combining MRS and EMBOSS and BLAST on the command line (pipeline construction)