Competency information

Details

Produce a written summary of reference sequences and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within networks with phenotype information.

Considerations

  • Robust and reproducible mechanisms for recording literature searches.

Bioinformatics pathway tools

  • Databases of metabolic networks (KEGG, Panther, etc.).
  • Databases of gene interactions (String, etc.).
  • Gene ontology and pathway analysis.
  • Strategies for determining whether a pathway is over-represented in a set of genes (Fisher exact t-test, methods based on gene lists).

Systems biology

  • Introduction to Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML).
  • Repositories of pathway models.
  • Determining model parameters from the literature.
  • Stability analysis of ordinary differential equations (ODE) models (Jacobians).

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Critically evaluate the literature and bioinformatic resources to identify biological pathways in which a gene(s) could participate.