Aims & Objectives:

• This exercise is designed to introduce post-graduate students to a range of useful web based molecular sequence analysis tools by working through some examples in a step-by-step fashion.

• The exercise aims to introduce researchers to the exisitence and location of the tools and also provide some basic background behind the use of the most commonly used tools. The exercise is not meant to be an exhaustive discussion of the techniques and algorithms used. Links to further reading are provided for this purpose.

Intended Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this three hour session you should be:

• Familiar with the existence, basic operation and location of a number of web based tools that will prove useful for basic nucleic acid and protein sequence handling and analysis

• Have a deeper understanding of some of the basic concepts of the theory behind the most commonly used tools

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