Welcome to KIT Bioinformatics E-Learning

        This web site will provide a gateway to Bioinformatics lectures, tutorials and study material, prepared by the Kyushu Institute of Technology. We hope to make it a complete source of expert level information on bioinformatics, using multimedia and in-house lessons. As a first step in this direction, we are bringing you the video recording of the lectures presented at First K.I.T. Bioinformatics Workshop held at Kyushu Institute of Technology on December 9-10, 2004. Following links will take you to the video lectures by the workshop faculty, recorded live, and also enable you to view slides synchronized with the lectures. (Please click on the following links to watch live streaming of these lectures).

Production staff: A. Sarai, S. Ahmad, T. Ohashi, Y. Ohnishi. We thank members of Ohashi laboratory for helping in the recording of the Workshop.
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System Requirements: These videos are best viewed and have been tested to work on the following
system settings:
    Operating system: MS Windows (tested on XP and 98)
    Browser: Internet Explorer (tested on version 6)
    Media Player: RealPlayer (Download RealPlayer free version from www.real.com)
Guidance for Linux users:
    These videos can be seen with Real Player on Linux (we tested for RedHat 8.0 with
    a linux version of Real Player installed-obtainable from www.real.com). Please click
    on corresponding links for Linux users. Please note that Linux could not show these
    videos as structured lectures- something, one would see in Windows.
Mac Users:
    Download and install Real Player and use the links either for windows or linux.
    One of them should suit your settings.

Lecture Title	Speaker
Opening and introduction RealPlayer Windows IE (Fully functional link) Linux (limited functionality)	Akinori Sarai
Bioinformatics Databases: RealPlayer Windows IE (Fully functional link) Linux (limited functionality) part 1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14 This lecture deals with bioinformatics databases: Sequence, structure, thermodynamic and interaction databases are covered.	Michael Gromiha
Protein sequence and structure alignments: algorithms and tools: RealPlayer Windows IE (Fully functional link) Linux (limited functionality) part 1, 2 This lecture deals with the main algorithms of sequence and structure alignments. It starts with a simple introduction to the problem of alignments, similarity, discusses similarity matrices, dynamic programming algorithm and structure superposition principles.	Shandar Ahmad
Eukaryotic mRNA, mRNA-located signals, databases and prediction tools: RealPlayer Windows IE (Fully functional link) Linux (limited functionality) This lecture is made of following four parts: 1. Introduction to mRNA organization and translation mechanisms. 2. Specific features of mRNA-located signals. 3. Databases concerning eukaryotic mRNAs. 4. Prediction of mRNA translation efficiency and specificity.	Alex Kochetov
Statistical and Computational foundations of Bioinformatics: RealPlayer Windows IE (Fully functional link) Linux (limited functionality) This lecture deals with the basic principles of statistics and computing which apply to the problems in Bioinformatics. It provides guidance on choice of programming methodologies, strategies to solve computational problems and where to look for answers.	Marcos Arauzo-Bravo
Structure and Function Prediction in Proteins: RealPlayer Windows IE (Fully functional link) Linux (limited functionality) This is a ver brief introduction to bioinformatics prediction methods. One particular problem of DNA-binding is taken as a case study to illustrate prediction systems.	Shandar Ahmad
CADLIVE: from biochemical networks to dynamic simulations: RealPlayer Windows IE (Fully functional link), Linux (limited functionality) part 1, 2, 3 CADLIVE (Computer-Aided Design of Living systEms) enables simulating dynamic models based on biochemical networks. This lecture provides instuction on how to build biochemical networks and make dynamic models using the CADLIVE system.	Hiroyuki Kurata
Thanks and closing	Akinori Sarai