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Programming with the Bio-languages (P02016)

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

Research and development in Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing field and brings together many disciplines. Supporting research in this area are a series of community led initiatives that provide highly custoised libraries and APIs for application development and data analysis. This course aims to review, with worked examples, the key resources preparing students for project work in the subject. This course is not intended to teach basic progamming techniques.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Introduction to Java Programming For Informatics PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Experience in programming which could be covered by a number of courses or previous experience.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Bioinformatics, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Other subject areas

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

It is anticipated that students who successfully complete the course will be able to:
* Describe and discuss the Bio: programming projects.
* Implement interfaces to the key bioinformatics packages.
* Discuss the community based data standards initiatives in the Bioinformatics field.
* Discuss the uses, applications of development of bio-ontologies.
* Describe and implement workflow management systems.
* Appraise GRID and e-Science technologies and their application to computationally intensive Bioinformatics problems.