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GraphPad Prism Course Overview
This course provides a great foundation for users of GraphPad Prism and covers the creation of publication quality charts plus performing statistical analysis and curve fitting. The course includes a range of self-paced exercises to practice key concepts.
Getting Started
Navigating the Prism Interface
Introduction to Prism project types
Data Entry: Importing & formatting data
Prism Project Types
XY Analyses: Creating and formatting Line, Bar and Scatter Plots
Group Comparisons: Comparing 2 groups graphically and generating descriptive statistics statistics
Survival Analysis
Contingency Analysis: Comparing observation counts for significant differences
Presentations
Creating layouts
Exporting charts and summary data
Statistics
How to select an appropriate statistical test
Data Distribution: Frequencies and Histograms; Assessing Normality & Symmetry
Data Manipulation: Transforming and normalizing data; Transposing data
Comparing 2 Groups: Unpaired and Paired T-Tests
Comparing Multiple Groups: 1-way and 2-way ANOVA and Post-tests
Curve Fitting
Goodness of fit and curve statistics
Linear regression
Outlier elimination
Selecting the appropriate fit model
Standard Curves and the derivation of unknown values
Dose Response
Enzymes kinetics
Competitive binding
Decay and half-life analysis
The course content agenda can be adapted to meet the needs and experience level of your organization.
Vector NTI Course Overview
This training course is designed for molecular biologists who would like to learn how to get the most out of Vector NTI, from creating plasmid maps and basic sequence analysis, through to PCR, cloning and assembling and aligning sequences.
Sequence Editing and Annotation
Creating and editing plasmid maps
Editing sequences
Adding and modifying annotations
Changing display preferences
DNA Sequence Analysis
Restriction analysis
Open reading frame searches
Translations
Protein Sequence Analysis
Motif searches
Back translation
Biophysical plots
Managing Data
Import/export
Searching
Organizing data using subsets
Primer Design
Designing new PCR and sequencing primers
Analyzing primer properties
Batch PCR
Cloning
Restriction cloning
Non-restriction cloning methods (TOPO, TA, Gateway)
Multiple sequence alignment (AlignX)
Assembling and analyzing contigs (Contig Express)
The course content and agenda can be adapted to meet the needs and experience level of your organization.