Biomolecules Folding and Disease

Bioinformatics for Systems and Synthetic Biology is a 32-hour course given by Emidio Capriotti to the students of the master in Bioinformatics The course is running from January 26th to February 20th, 2026 the lectures will be given in presence and online. This page will include all the slides and materials of the course.

• Materials
  

  Course schedule, presentation and registration
  Basics in Molecular Biology and Biomolecular Interactions	26 January, 2026.
  Biomolecular Databases	27 January, 2026.
  Searching Tools and Alignments	28 January, 2026.
  Data Science and Basic Algorithms	29 January, 2026.
  Variant Analysis	30 January, 2026.

  
  
  Bioinformatics and Rare Diseases
  

  Pablo Minguez: Bioinformatics in a clinical setting. Applications in the study and diagnosis of rare diseases	12 February, 2026.
  Julien Gagneur: Where does it hurt (in your genome)?	13 February, 2026.
  Antonio Rausell: Supervised & federated machine-learning for the clinical assessment of genetic variants: limitations & opportunities.	16 February, 2026.
  Sergi Beltran: Collaborative genome-phenome analysis and interpretation for research on rare diseases diagnosis.	18 February, 2026.
  Tommaso Pippucci: Two decades of shifting paradigms in medical genomics: the role of new technologies and big data.	19 February, 2026.
  Alessia Ciarrocchi: High dimensional resolution of the cancer ecosystem.	20 February, 2026.




• Requirements
  

This is a theoretical and practical course which requires the use of PC.




• References
  

Introduction to Bioinformatics, by Arthur Lesk.

Installation of Ubuntu on WSL2, by Ubuntu.

Learning the Bash Shell, by Cameron Newham & Bill Rosenblatt, O'Reilly.

Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python, by Joel Grus, O'Reilly.

Python For Data Anlysis, by Wes McKinney, O'Reilly.