After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

- present the importance of the field of applied bioinformatics for the era of biotechnology and life sciences.

- explain the essential tasks and applied tools/strategies in the analysis of DNA, RNA and protein sequences.

- explain important bioinformatic databases and their architecture.

- Introduction to Bioinformatics.

- Bioinformatic Servers and Databases

- Statistical basics of bioinformatics.

- Tools and algorithms for finding DNA, RNA and protein sequence similarities.

- Introduction to applied bioinformatics of the genome, transcriptome, proteome and metagenome.

- Models for molecular evolution and their calculation

- Prediction of structure and function of protein sequences

The focus of the lecture is on developing the theoretical knowledge for the correct application of bioinformatic tools and programs.

- Lecture

- Presentation of examples

- Explanations based on questions asked

Blocked lecture, For the master Biomedical Engineering a seperat course is held

Written examination