Understanding the concept of homology

Understand different types of biological databases

Recalling the roles of different bioinformatics tools

Understand text search strategies

Interpret output from a database text search

Understand similarity search with BLAST, including E-values

Interpret and critically evaluate BLAST output

Interpret a multiple sequence alignment

Interpret output from a protein domain search

Understand how a gene's genomic DNA sequence relates to its cDNA sequence

Interpret information on gene structure from genome browsers

Predict the effect of a mutation in a gene on its predicted protein product

Recall and compare the chemistry of different amino acids

Recall features of protein secondary structure

Understand how to use a visualization tool to examine proteins in 3D (including command syntax)

Interpret structural information from protein structure databases and a 3D visualization tool

Understand the genetic code

Understand the principals of protein 3D strutural modelling