Documents

• pptx- Power point presentation as pptx
• pdf - Understanding Evolutionary Trees
• pdf - DNA Barcodes: Genes, Genomics, and Bioinformatics
• pdf - DNA barcoding detects contamination and substitutions in North American herbal products
• pdf - What is Bioinformatics

Videos

• Video 1 - Introduction to Bioinformatics and DNA Barcoding
• Video 2 - Installing Software (if necessary)
• Video 3 - Trim reads withFinchTV
• Video 4 - Assemble reads with BioEdit
• Video 5 - Adding annotations to reads using blastx
• Video 6 - Translating reads with Emboss Transeq
• Video 7 - Molecular phylogenetic analysis using MEGA

Sequence Data Sets

• zip file - Ant Data, 10/20/2015
• zip file - Collection of trace files
• zip file - Collection of trimmed reads in fasta format
• zip file - Collection of assembled forward and reverse reads
• fasta file - multi-fasta file of assembled reads
• fasta file - multi-fasta file of assembled reads with annotations from blastn search
• fasta file - multi-fasta file of amino acid sequences from transeq

Bioinformatics websites

• FinchTV - DNA trace viewer (download and install)
• BioEdit - Biological sequence alignment editor (download and install)
• Contig Assembly Program 3 (CAP3) - Online contig assembly program for assembling reads.
• Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) - sequence similarity search tool
• EMBOSS Transeq - sequence translation tool
• Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) - Molecular Phylogenetics Analysis Software (download and install)
• Jalview - Java based multiple sequence alignment editor
• EMBOSS - online resource for various bioinformatics applications
• NCBI homepage - A resource for bioinformatics tools and databases

Introduction to DNA Barcoding and Bioinformatics 

This module will introduce students to bioinformatics resources used in barcoding.