Credit structure

Credits: 10 stp

Project: Written + oral presentation, Usually in end of Nowember (Pass/Not pass)

Exam: 4 hours, Usually in Desember (Scale: A-F)

Exercises: Obligatory

Text Book

Instant Notes in Bioinformatics

Author(s) - David Westhead, Howard Parish, Richard Twyman

Series: Instant Notes

ISBN: 9781859962725

ISBN-10: 1859962726

Lectures

See timetable

Syllabus

1. Overview of Bioinformatics.
2. Data Acquisition.
3. Databases - Contents Structure and Annotation.
4. Retrieval of Biological Data.
5. Searching Sequence Databases by Sequence Similarity Criteria.
6. Multiple Sequence Alignment: Gene and Protein Families.
7. Phylogenetics.
8. Sequence Annotation.
9. Structural Bioinformatics.
10. Microarray Data Analysis
11. Proteomic Data Analysis.
12. Higher Order Systems.
13. Cheminformatics in Biology.
14. Bioinformatics in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
15. Basic Principles of Computing in Bioinformatics.

Teachers

See timetable

Exercises

See timetable

Weekly practice (understanding)

Can work alone or in teams of two

Problems / answers

NB! Oligatory

Project

A more depth study: paper, field etc.

Should relate to at least 2 of the course topics

Team work

Topic presented: usually in October

Choose from the topic list we'll provide, or suggest your own

Each team, project presentation (30 min.): November/Desember

URL

http://cold.imb.fm.uit.no/Bio2304