? Credit Points : 10  ? SCQF Level : 10  ? Acronym : BMS-4-PYpgp

The module has three aims: to encourage students to see how computational methods are increasingly relevant to biomedical research, to enable students to become proficient at utilising relevant databases on the WWW, and to provide training in how to perform common bioinformatics tasks.

Topics covered include: molecular sequence databases - how to effectively navigate the vast public DNA and protein databases; genome databases - looking at how to find what you need from the wealth of data in whole-genome datasets; microarrays: these allow the assaying of the expression levels from thousands of genes simultaneously, we shall cover microarray technology, the bioinformatics techniques needed to analyse the resulting datasets, and study applications in cell biology, physiology and neuroscience; embryo gene expression databases - looking at the structure and use of such resources, focusing on the Mouse Atlas database; neuroinformatics - looking at recent developments in databases for the representation and analysis of data in neuroscience.

Teaching will be by seminars introducing key topics and student-led discussion sessions at which you shall give short presentations on either selected papers or the results of practical computer-exercises. Supervised computing practicals will cover the relevant software (mainly on the WWW) and enable students to undertake further computational work independently.

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Permission of the Curriculum Approval Officer.

? Costs : None

Home subject area

Physiology (Biomedical Sciences), (School of Biomedical Sciences, Schedule T)

Other subject areas

Physiology (Biological Sciences), (School of Biological Sciences, Schedule K)

? Normal year taken : 4th year

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

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) 45 minutes per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date Start End Room Area Additional Information 19/09/2006 14:00 17:00 Biomedical Seminar Rm 5, Medical School

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Tuesday 14:00 15:50 Med+Vet

Increased understanding of biological processes.
Detailed learning outcomes will be provided later.

100% exam

Exam times

Diet Diet Month Paper Code Paper Name Length 1ST December 1 - 1 hour(s) 30 minutes

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Ms Victoria Farrar
Tel : (0131 6)50 3717
Email : v.farrar@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Mike Cousin
Tel : (0131 6)50 3259
Email : M.Cousin@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.dbcls.med.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.mvm.ed.ac.uk/