Online tutorial
A journey through bioinformatics Explore resources from EMBL-EBI
Time to complete: 1 hour
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This course was written by
- David Armstrong
- Melissa Burke
- Laura Huerta
- Maria Levchenko
- Alex Mitchell
- Sarah Morgan
- Grace Mugumbate
- Prudence Mutowo
- Sandra Orchard
- Emily Perry
- Sangya Pundir
- Lorna Richardson
- Amy Tang
- Ajay Mishra
Last reviewed: December 2020
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This course will take you on a journey through time and space to provide a taste of the free resources and data that EMBL-EBI has on offer. Join this tour filled with challenges to explore and learn about various databases and resources.
Who is this course for?
This course is for anyone who is interested in exploring databases and resources available for data oriented research in life sciences. To take this course, an undergraduate-level knowledge of biology would be an advantage.
This online tutorial is part of the Introductory bioinformatics pathway: A curated set of EMBL-EBI online courses, which provides an introduction to bioinformatics, a brief tour of the resources available from EMBL-EBI and more details about some of those resources, including Ensembl, UniProt and Expression Atlas.
What will I achieve?
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Describe the application of a number of EMBL-EBI resources
- Find the right EMBL-EBI resource
- Retrieve data from bioinformatic resources
- Identify where to find more information about bioinformatic tools
What resources do I need?
There are no specific requirements to complete this course.
DOI:
10.6019/TOL.Treasure-t.2017.00001.1
Course contents
- Let’s begin the journey
- Travel back in time to the Ice Age: Europe PMC
- Nice moves (genetically speaking): Ensembl
- Travel to cool destination (The Arctic): MGnify
- Travel to high altitude: ArrayExpress
- Future travel (Plants in space): Expression Atlas
- The joys of travel (food) part 1: IntAct
- The joys of travel (food) part 2: ChEMBL
- Travel challenges (jet-lag): Complex Portal
- Perils of travel: PDBe and EMDB
- The journey continues
- Your feedback
- References
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The average time to read through the main body of the course is 1 hour (not including exercises and external links). The time may vary depending on your prior knowledge and how you choose to work through the course.
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