[Alumnos-ii-cs] Coloquio Departamental, Martes 11 Agosto 12:00, F106, CC y LPA, CSSJ

[Claudio Torres L.]

Estimad at s,

El próximo **Martes**11**  de Agosto a las 12:00** el Profesor Alexander A. Zamyatnin nos ofrecerá un coloquio titulado "PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED BIOINFORMATICS". La charla tendrá lugar en el Auditorio Claudio Matamoros (F-106) en Casa Central y se transmitirá por videoconferencia al Laboratorio de Programación Avanzada (LPA) del Campus San Joaquín.

¡Quedan todos cordialmente invitados!

*Resumen:*
Though a relatively young discipline, bioinformatics is finding increasing importance in
many life science disciplines, including biology, biochemistry, medicine, and chemistry.
Since its beginnings in the late 1980s, the success of bioinformatics has been
associated with rapid developments in computer science, not least in the relevant
hardware and software. In addition, biotechnological advances such as those witnessed
in the fields of genome sequencing, microarrays and proteomics have contributed
enormously to the bioinformatics boom. Finally, the simultaneous breakthrough and
success of the World-Wide Web has facilitated the worldwide distribution of and easy
access to bioinformatics tools.
Today, bioinformatics techniques such as the BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search
Tool) algorithm, pairwise and multiple sequence comparisons, queries of biological
databases, and phylogenetic analyses have become familiar tools to the natural
scientist. Many of the software products that were initially unintuitive and cryptic have
matured into relatively simple and user-friendly products being easily accessible over
the Internet. One no longer needs to be a computer scientist to proficiently operate
bioinformatics tools with respect to complex scientific questions. Nevertheless, what
remains important is an understanding of fundamental biological principles together
with a knowledge of the appropriate bioinformatics tools available and how to access
them. Also, and not least, is the confidence to apply these tools correctly to generate
meaningful results.

The aim of this lecture and future lecture course is both to introduce the daily
application of a variety of bioinformatics tools and to provide an overview of a complex
field. However, the intent is neither to describe nor even derive formulae or
algorithms, but rather to facilitate rapid and structured access to applied bioinformatics
by interested students and young scientists.

*Mini Bio:*
Physicist (Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1964);
Ph.D (biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1971);
D.Sci. (human and animal physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992);
Professor (Supreme Interacademic Certifying Commission, Russia, 1999).

Cordiales Saludos,

Comité de Coloquio


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