Summer Institute In Bioinformatics
Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)
July 14-25, 2008
Application deadline: Registration is closed.
A workshop hosted by The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Summer Institute in Bioinformatics is a two week course, directed towards faculty, students and staff at MARC program institutions. The Summer Institute has the goal of preparing the participants to teach bioinformatics courses at their local campuses. Interested individuals associated with a MARC program institution are encouraged to apply, including faculty from diverse departments, including biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, and engineering.
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The workshop will introduce participants to the computational, mathematical and biological issues surrounding bioinformatics. A number of fundamental topics in bioinformatics will be discussed including inferring structures and functions; database searching and pairwise sequence alignment; multiple sequence alignments; pattern identification. Special emphasis will be placed on parameter selection, and the mathematical, statistical, and biological foundations of the algorithms and methods presented. Information will also be provided on hidden Markov models, advanced position-specific weight matrices, bayesian estimation, homology modeling, structural biology, molecular dynamics simulations, and phylogenic tree creation and evaluation. The use of internet resources and remote computing facilities will also be discussed as will an introduction Biology for non-biologists and an introduction to the Python programming language for biologists.
For more information about the Summer Institute in Bioinformatics, or becoming a partner institution, please contact:
Dr. Hugh Nicholas
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
300 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh PA, 15213
nicholas@psc.edu
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