- Course overview
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- Bioinformatics for the terrified
- What is bioinformatics?
- An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources
- A journey through bioinformatics at EMBL-EBI
- Have you used an EMBL-EBI resource before?
- Bringing data to life
- Data visualisation
- Finding information about genes with Ensembl
- Finding expression data
- Searching for protein sequence and functional information data
- Searching for protein structures
- Collection challenge
- Collection completed!
- Your feedback
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Bioinformatics for the terrified
The first online tutorial in this pathway, Bioinformatics for the terrified, starts by introducing the subject of bioinformatics, explains the role of databases in bioinformatics and provides tips on how you could start using bioinformatics in your research.
During the tutorial you will consider the questions ‘What is bioinformatics, who is it for and where does it fit with bench-based life science research?’.
This online tutorial will take 2-3 hours to complete, but you do not need to complete it all in one go. When you have finished come back to this page to continue on your Introductory bioinformatics pathway.
Now you have completed this first tutorial, take a moment to think about how would you explain what bioinformatics is to a colleague. Would you mention data, databases or metadata?