Week 1 — Extended Module
Price
2000 S.R
2000 S.R
Duration
15 hours (internationally recognized)
3 Days
certificate
Accredited Innovation Training Program (AInTP) ®
Location
iGene Medical Training & Research Center
Date
This course runs from Sep 7th, 2025, to Sep 9th, 2025
Who is this course for?
- Molecular biology/proteomics researchers.
- R&D teams and drug-discovery interns.
- Anyone annotating or characterizing novel proteins.
A hands-on, step-by-step journey from the fundamentals to applied analysis. Trainees learn how to retrieve and clean real sequence data, run core DNA/protein analyses, build high-quality alignments, and generate publication-ready outputs. Each week delivers ~15 training hours (internationally accredited, AInTP) with practical exercises and instructor feedback.
Week 1 — Extended Module
What you gain (brief): A single-sample end-to-end pipeline—data review, database records, quality control, simple assembly, and ORF finding.
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Day 1: The World of Bioinformatics (5 hours)
- Lecture (2 hours):
- What is bioinformatics? Core concepts and applications.
- Understanding DNA, RNA, and Protein: The central dogma of molecular biology.
- Introduction to sequence analysis, structural bioinformatics, and genomics.
- Practical (3 hours):
- Becoming an expert with PubMed: Searching for literature, using filters, and managing references.
- Introduction to major bioinformatics portals like NCBI and ExPASy.
Day 2: Introduction to Biological Databases (5 hours)
- Lecture (2 hours):
- Types of Databases: Primary (GenBank, DDBJ, EMBL) vs. Secondary (UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, RefSeq).
- Understanding database entries: Reading GenBank and UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot records.
- Practical (3 hours):
- Retrieving DNA and protein sequences using accession numbers and keywords.
- Exploring the cross-references and links within database entries.
- Guided tour of NCBI and ExPASy websites.
- Task: Find the human insulin protein sequence and its corresponding gene sequence.
Day 3: Working with Individual Sequences (5 hours)
- Lecture (2 hours):
- Sequence quality control: Identifying and removing vector contamination.
- DNA composition: G+C content, word counts, and finding repeats.
- Finding protein-coding regions: Open Reading Frames (ORFs) and GeneMark.
- Practical tasks (3 hours):
- Using VecScreen to check for vector contamination.
- Analyzing DNA composition with online tools.
- Predicting ORFs using ORF Finder.
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Molecular biology/proteomics researchers.
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R&D teams and drug-discovery interns.
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Anyone annotating or characterizing novel proteins.