First part: topics to be covered on-line (January 12th - February 29th, 2004)
UNIX as operative system
Programming with PERL
BIOPERL: uses and applications
Second part: CUC, Campus Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco (March 8th - 13th, 2004)
- Introduction: general concepts about genomic sciences (Manuel Gómez)
- Molecular biology databases: (Manuel Gómez)
Design and use of molecular biology databases
Data mining
- Sequence alignment: motifs and domains (Manuel Gómez)
- Molecular Phylogenies (Luis Delaye, Arturo Becerra and Adrián Reyes)
- Protein databases: visualization and structure comparison (Alfonso Valencia)
- Protein structure prediction: (Alfonso Valencia)
1D characteristics
Threading and homology modeling
- Perspectives in bioinformatics and molecular biology (Alfonso Valencia)
Faculty:
Alfonso Valencia (National Center for Biotechnology, Spain)
Manuel Gómez (National Center for Biotechnology, Spain)
Arturo Becerra (School of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico)
Luis Delaye (School of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico)
Adrián Reyes (Institute for Biology, UNAM, Mexico)
Gerardo Coello Coutiño (Institute for Cell Physiology, UNAM, Mexico)
Third part: Symposium (March 14th –16th, 2004)
13 lectures covering different topics on bioinformatics research and applications
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
- National Research Council (CONACYT), Mexico
- Latin American Network for Biology (RELAB)
- nstitute for Cell Physiology, National Autonomus University of Mexico
- University of Guadalajara, Campus Puerto Vallarta
- Mexican Society of Biochemistry, A.C.
- Alicia González Manjarrez (Institute for Cell Physiology, UNAM, Mexico)
- José María Cantú (CUCS, University of Guadalajara, Mexico)
- Alexander de Luna Fors (Institute for Cell Physiology, UNAM, Mexico)
- Lina R. Riego Ruiz (Institute for Cell Physiology, UNAM, Mexico)
- M. en C. Pedro Medina Rosas
- Ing. Miguel Lizcano Sánchez
- Ing. Alejandro Cuevas Cortéz
- Ing. Edmundo Sánchez Medina
