Accelerating biology with bioinformatics: collaboration with lab scientists Lewitter, RECOMB BE,...
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- Accelerating biology with bioinformatics: collaboration with
lab scientists Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Bioinformatics Definitions An interdisciplinary field involving
biology, computer science, mathematics, and statistics to analyze
biological sequence data, genome content, and arrangement, and to
predict the function and structure of macromolecules. David Mount
Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Bioinformatics Definitions An interdisciplinary field involving
biology, computer science, mathematics, and statistics to analyze
biological sequence data, genome content, and arrangement, and to
predict the function and structure of macromolecules. David Mount
The use of computational methods to make biological discoveries.
Fran Lewitter Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Bioinformatics at Whitehead Bioinformatics for High School
Students Other Educational Activities Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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- Bioinformatics at Whitehead Part 1 Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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- Projects we work on Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- http://jura.wi.mit.edu/bio Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Who we train High School Computer Science students (6) High
School Computer Science students (6) High School Computer Science
teacher sabbatical (1) High School Computer Science teacher
sabbatical (1) Undergrads Biology, Math (3) Undergrads Biology,
Math (3) Bioinformatics Masters students (3) Bioinformatics Masters
students (3) Biology grad students (100s) Biology grad students
(100s) Biology postdocs (100s) Biology postdocs (100s) Lewitter,
RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Hot Topics Intro to R Statistics Querying Biological Databases
with SQL Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) Mapping Next Generation
Sequence Reads Analysis of ChIP-seq experiments RNA-Seq Methods and
Applications Analysis of next-gen seq experiments with Galaxy
Juggling Genome Coordinates Beginners class on creating figures in
R http://iona.wi.mit.edu/bio/education/hottopics.php Lewitter,
RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- http://jura.wi.mit.edu/bio/education Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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- Bioinformatics for High School Students Part 2 Lewitter, RECOMB
BE, July 2011
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- Exploring small regulatory RNAs Spring Lecture Series for High
School Students April 21-23, 2009 Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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- Bioinformatics The application of computational methods to the
field of molecular biology We work on many different projects with
many lab scientists Trained in biology and computation Sometimes
called computational biology Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- BaRC website http://jura.wi.mit.edu Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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- Central dogma The flow of genetic information DNA RNA Protein
mRNA tRNA rRNA transcriptiontranslation Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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- History of RNA Late 1800s - 2nd kind of nucleic acid not in the
nucleus (rRNA) 1920s - sugar for DNA vs RNA 1958 - tRNA (Hoagland)
1960s mRNA Last 15 years miRNA, ncRNAs, snoRNA, snRNA, siRNA,
piwiRNA, stRNA! Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- New Roles of RNA miRNA - tiny 2124-nucleotide RNAs; reduce
levels of specific mRNA and proteins (regulate elsewhere;
many-to-many relationships of miRNAs to targets) miRNA and disease
cancer (bladder, breast, cervical, colorectal, lymphonas,
leukemias, etc), asthma, alcoholic liver disease, autism,
cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, muscular dystrophy,
frontotemporal dementia, hypertension, schizophrenia, thalassemia,
ulcerative colitis, etc. Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- New York Times 11/12/08 NucleusCytoplasm Precursor
micro-RNAmicro-RNARNAi blocks translation 3 UTR Lewitter, RECOMB
BE, July 2011
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- UTR Exon1 Exon2 Exon3 UTR mRNA5 3 Exon1 Exon2 Exon3 Protein
Target UGCAUUCCAGG mRNA Target Base pairing ACGUAAGGUCC Seed match
Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Human miR-16 targets in SMURF1 gene Alignment of DNA sequence
in many organisms Human Chimp Rhesus Bushbaby Treeshrew Mouse Rat
Guinea Pig Rabbit Shrew Hedgehog Dog Cat Horse Cow Armadillo
Elephant Tenrec Opposum Platypus Lizard Chicken Frog Lewitter,
RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Summary of miRNAs MicroRNAs are small, recently discovered
genes with RNA (but not protein) products MicroRNAs can base-pair
to the end of mRNAs and target them for destruction or reduce
protein synthesis A single miRNA can target lots of genes A single
protein-coding gene can be regulated by lots of miRNAs Conservation
of the miRNA binding site across different species can help
identify gene targets Some diseases appear to be influenced by
wrong levels of functional miRNAs High percentage of our genes are
controlled by miRNAs Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Todays Exercise http://jura.wi.mit.edu/bio/education/HS2009
1.Conservation of miRNA genes 2.Conservation of miRNA targets
3.miRNAs and disease! Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Summary of Exercise One miRNA can target multiple genes One
gene can be controlled by multiple miRNAs miRNA binding sites are
conserved by evolution. Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- Other Educational Activities Part 3 Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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- PLoS Computational Biology http://www.ploscompbiol.org/
Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- PLoS Computational Biology Education Section Tutorials Quick
Guides Reviews Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- PLoS Computational Biology Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- PLoS: Roots of Bioinformatics Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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- ISCB Education Committee Currently ~50 people, ~20 active
members Meet annually at ISMB Email list and discussions during the
year Activities Accreditation (Task Force) Bioinformatics in
secondary school Improve web information Curriculum Initiative
Educating biologists (at what meetings?) WEB11 Lewitter, RECOMB BE,
July 2011
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- http://www.iscb.org Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July 2011
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- How far weve come! Closing slide Lewitter, RECOMB BE, July
2011
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