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Course Information

IV106 Bionformatics seminar

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2012

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 1 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Matej Lexa, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Supervisor

prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Department of Information Technologies - Faculty of Informatics
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Department of Information Technologies - Faculty of Informatics

Prerequisites

Those who sign up for this interdisciplinary course should be able to read and comprehend a scientific paper or book chapter written in English. Deeper knowledge of algorithm design and programming will allow the particular student to focus more on the biological side of the studied problems or vice versa. Students of non-biological fields should be concurrently enrolled in, or have previously passed IV107 Bioinformatics I. Alternatively they may frequent the course with the consent of the teacher.

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

there are 42 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

The Spring Term seminar covers "Genomic sequence analysis for detection of genes, promoter sequences and other elements".
Students will gain insight into problems studied in bioinformatics; they will practice presentation and discussion techniques in front of an audience.

Syllabus

• Students will chose publications to study recent methods in genomic sequence analysis (using suggested journal articles or other material approved by the teacher). Possible subjects of papers:
• Gene identification in DNA sequences
• Similarity between sequences
• Motif and pattern searching
• DNA and RNA secondary structure prediction

Literature

• Understanding bioinformatics. Edited by Marketa Zvelebil - Jeremy O. Baum. New York, N.Y.: Garland Science, 2008. xxiii, 772. ISBN 978-0-8153-4024. info

Teaching methods

student presentations and discussion

Assessment methods

Each student will be evaluated based on his presentation of the studied paper. Those absent from presentations will take an oral exam of topics covered during the semester.

Language in which the course is taught

English

Follow-Up Courses

• IV105 Bionformatics seminar
• IV108 Bionformatics II

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

Teacher's information

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~lexa/
Students select specific papers for each cycle of the seminar at the beginning of the semester. The papers typically come from scientific journals (Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Computational Biology, Proteins) or conference proceedings (RECOMB, ISCB, ECCB).

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014.

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