Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Bacterial Genomes: From DNA to Protein Function Using Bioinformatics
This online course covered the fundamentals of microbial bioinformatics: introduced learners to DNA and protein sequences and how to represent them for use in bioinformatics analysis; completed similarity searches and used similarities to explore potential functions of a previously unknown sequence; used protein databases to find conserved protein domains within a protein sequence - a key step in investigating potential protein function and in studying the determinants of virulence in microbes.
The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) has accredited this course for 10 Continuing Professional Development credits. This applies to medical staff and clinical scientists in career grade posts who are enrolled with one of the Royal Colleges for CPD purposes.
2 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dr. Rebecca Twells
Head of
Wellcome Connecting Science
Professor Nicholas Thomson
Group Leader, Bacterial Genomics and Evolution
Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Assess DNA representations and protein sequences
- Perform searches in primary databases (repositories) and retrieve gene/protein data
- Interpret different repository submission formats
- Investigate biological databases for research
- Identify the putative function of proteins based on their conserved domains
Syllabus
• Bioinformatics tools, DNA and protein sequences
• Retrieving DNA and protein sequences from repositories
• Databases for protein annotation
• Inferring function from sequence
Accreditation
The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) has accredited this course for 10 Continuing Professional Development credits. This applies to medical staff and clinical scientists in career grade posts who are enrolled with one of the Royal Colleges for CPD purposes.
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Issued on 4th October 2020
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