Resources for Bioinformatics

Essential Information | For Further Reading | Other Links

About This Page

This page is a guide and collection of resources for Biology 325 at DePauw University. The number of resources available to the bioinformatician is overwhelming. Navigating these resources can be daunting and discouraging to those just starting to learn about the field -- be it students in this course, faculty interested in adding bioinformatics content to their courses, or the general Internet visitor. This page aims to organize, generalize and simplify by highlighting certain important bioinformatics resources.

Essential Information

This section contains links and information essential to the course content.

Review

Part I: Sequence Databases and Information Retrieval

Part II: Pairwise Sequence Comparisons

Part III: BLAST, FASTA, and advanced BLAST

Part IV: Protein Sequence and Structure Analyses

Part V: MSAs or Multiple Sequence Alignments

Part VI: Molecular Phylogenetic Analyses

For Further Reading

This section contains links to articles, websites and other resources for further reading on the topics covered in the course. All textbooks listed are on reserve at the Prevo Science Library unless otherwise noted.

The Textbooks used for this Course

More Textbooks

Software and Other Programs

There are seven software programs listed in this section, and they are in a specific order -- one that echoes the flowchart of biological information used for this course.

Review

Part I - Sequence Databases and Information Retrieval

Part II: Pairwise Sequence Comparisons

Part V: MSAs or Multiple Sequence Alignments

Other Links

This section contains links to various online resources that are not directly connected to course material, but students, faculty and other parties interested in bioinformatics may find useful.

Genome and Genomics

Education

Model Organisms


Last updated: April 3rd, 2017; Andrew Klein and Chet Fornari