Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca - VHIR Institut d’Investigació Sanitària de l’Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) Bioinformàtica per la Recerca Biomèdica http://ueb.vhir.org/2014BRB Alex Sánchez [email protected]13/05/2014 INTRODUCTION TO BIOINFORMATICS
Course: Bioinformatics for Biomedical Research (2014). Session: 1.1- Introduction to Bioinformatics. Statistics and Bioinformatisc Unit (UEB) & High Technology Unit (UAT) from Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (www.vhir.org), Barcelona.
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Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca - VHIR
Institut d’Investigació Sanitària de l’Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Bioinformàtica per la Recerca Biomèdica http://ueb.vhir.org/2014BRB
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge
John Naisbitt Who on efficient work is bent, must choose the fittest instrument.
Goethe (Fausto)
1. What is Bioinformatics? ● The explosive growth of data ● The growth of GenBank ● Bioinformatics definition ● Bioinformatics and interdisciplinarity ● The scope of bioinformatics
2. What is a bioinformatician?
● What does a bioinformatician know? ● What does a bioinformatician do?
3. Where and how is bioinformatics done? ● Where is bioinformatics done? ● How is bioinformatics done? ● To know more…
• Usually, though not necessarily, it has “universal” purpose, to access a maximum number of users: – Often looking for online solutions – Often based on projects (more or less) open
source and freely distributed *
* It is not generalized at all – For instance, Ingenuity Pathways Analysis is not free
but is quite good.
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TO KNOW MORE
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• There are a lot of free courses and training activities: – EBI’s 2scan – NCBI’s tutorials – Local training courses
• Introducción a la Bioinformática (Alex Sánchez, UEB/UB) • Invitació a la Bioinformàtica (Plataforma BioinfoUAB)
• A great variety of rerefence books: • List of books on bioinformatics
• Scientific Societies and Publications: – Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics – International Society for Computational Biology