Bioinformatics 1 (VS1) (P01362)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : INF-P-BIO1-V

A primary requisite for relevant, and efficient, research in Bioinformatics is that scientists from both fields (bio and informatics) are involved, or consulted. Team work can only be successful if all parties have a basic ground knowledge of the respective other field and, most importantly, that they can communicate with each other.

The aims of the course are to help you overcome both of these difficulties in your future careers. The first half ("Essential Biology") of the course can be considered a "crash" course in biology, conveying/recapping the basics. In the second half of the course ("Modern Biology"), you will learn about biological data, and data sources, that have only been developed very recently and whose analysis will be amongst the major bioinformatic challenges in the near future.

Entry Requirements

? This course is only available to part year visiting students.

? This course is a variant of the following course : P00859

? Pre-requisites : For Informatics PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Parts of this course assume a basic knowledge in biology beyond general high school standards (i.e. is suitable for everyone with a University education in a biology-related field).

? Co-requisites : Students with a higher education in a biology-related field can ask to be exempted from the first half of the course (excluding assessed coursework and exam).

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Bioinformatics, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Other subject areas

Neuroinformatics, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Database Systems, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Life Science Computing, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Computational Systems Biology, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
26/09/2006	09:00	10:50	Lecture Room 5326, JCMB	KB

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	09:00	10:50	KB

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

It is anticipated that students who successfully complete the course will be able to:
-Communicate about essential and modern biology and how it relates to Informatics
-Describe basic biotechnology in the context of its underlying theortical basis with an emphasis on the technologies routinely used in modern genomics and functional genomics.
-Discuss the relationship between wet-experimental technology and the potential/type of errors encountered in biological databases.
-Comprehend and critically evaluate biological scientific literature.