Insulin family sequence logo, showing the relative likelihood of different amino acids at different places in the sequence. The sequence logo was constructed using partial sequences from human, rabbit, horse, sheep, pig, chicken, alligator, and cod insulin proteins.

BMTH 312 Bioinformatics

Course Topics

Central Dogma of Biology
Sequence Bioinformatics:
- protein sequence databases
- pairwise alignment
- multiple sequence alignment
- protein sequence families
Structural Bioinformatics
- protein structure databases
- protein structure alignment
- protein structure families
Applications:
- Insulin and Metabolic Diseases
- Malaria Transmission
- Breast Cancer and the Estrogen Receptor