Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists

Beatriz Vieira Mourato and Bernhard Haubold

This is a one-week practical course to learn sequence analysis on the Unix command line.

We follow the book Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists. A Problems Approach by Haubold & Börsch-Haubold.

The Unix Command Line

• On Windows
• On macOS
• In a sandbox

Demo Software

• The bioinformer is a stand-alone Java program to demonstrate some of the concepts concepts covered in the course.
• Draw the Burrow’s Wheeler transform
• Draw coalescents
• Draw suffix trees
• Calculate shortest unique substrings (shustrings)