Bioinformatics is a computer intensive field, so it is quite natural to find that experts in this discipline tend to post a lot of useful information on the web. In fact most professors teaching bioinformatics courses, book authors, and creators of important algorithms have extensive web sites filled with tutorials and educational information. The challenge is to locate the resources that you need for your personal education without spending months of your time surfing the web searching for these gems.
There is a clear need for an organized central resource that collect links to bioinformatics training material. The Bioinformatics Training Resource (BTR) is an attempt to fill this need.
The BTR is an organized collection of links to online tutorials, online courses, essays, book chapters, course syllabi, glossaries, bibiliographies of key papers, etc. In short everything that interested scientists need in order to train themselved in the emerging discipline of bioinformatics.
There are a few drawbacks in attempting to learn from the experts. Some of the material listed here is of an highly technical nature, most presumes a thorough understanding of molecular biology, some even contains GASP mathematics!!! Therefore, we have included some links to tutorials in molecular biology and related subjects to help you get up to speed. There is also a section called "Getting Started in Bioinformatics" that contains material suitable for high school students and those unfamiliar with biology and/or computer science. In addition, there are links to several online Glossaries where biological and computing terms are thoroughly explained.
Another hazard of learning from computer experts is their tendency to use cutting edge technology.
Some of the web pages listed in this collection contain information in Adobe PDF format, Microsoft
PowerPoint, RealAudio, Quicktime, Microsoft Media Player, and PostScript. Here is a collection of
links to resources where you can download software to tune up your computer for web browsing at
the bleeding edge.
Please feel free to submit addional resources, comments/reviews of the resources, or general suggestions to improve the BTR website. Please sent all comments to Stuart Brown (browns02@med.nyu.edu) at New York University School of Medicine.
- Background/Introductory Material on Molecuar Biololgy
- Getting Started in Bioinformatics
- Complete Bioinformatics Courses/Tutorials
- Finding Sequences in Databases
- Sequence Similarity Searching
- Pairwise and Multiple Alignment
- Protein Structure, Patterns, Motifs, etc.
- Restriction Mapping and PCR Primer Design
- DNA Sequencing/Sequence Assembly
- Phylogenetics
- The Human Genome Project
- Other Lists of Bioinformatics Courses/Training Resources
- Glossaries of Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics Terms
- A List of Recommended Books
- Selected Literature Citations
- Other Online Bibliographies
- Downloadable resources to power up your Web Browser