BIOS-IN5410 – Bioinformatics for Molecular Biology

Course content

This course provides an overview of a range of resources and practical bioinformatic tools that are used in molecular biology. Scientists actively developing and applying bioinformatic tools in their research will talk about their fields and their own work. The course is mainly intended for biology students who need to perform bioinformatic analyses in their own research. The course is also open for students with a computer science or related background wishing to extend their knowledge of informatics problems in the biological domain. Students must bring a lap-top for in-course demonstrations and the practical lab exercises.

Learning outcome

After completing this course, you

? can explain the need for high-throughput sequence analysis within molecular biology

? can perform bioinformatic analyses in a shell environment on a remote supercomputer

? can use basic programming and scripting to use and adapt existing analytical pipelines

? can use different biological databases for a range of applications

? can perform short read sequence alignment towards a reference genome

? can explain the basics of 3D genome organization and how to model this

? can perform exploratory high-throughput (RNAseq) data analyses in R

? can explain the basics of 3D protein folding and x-ray crystallography

Admission to the course

Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

The courses? BIOS-IN5410 and BIOS-IN9410 have joint?admission. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:

  1. Master students and PhD candidates?at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum.
  2. Other PhD candidates?and visiting PhD candidates.
  3. Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students.

Applicants are ranked by credits in each group; all applicants within 1st rank before applicants in 2nd etc.If admission is limited to a fixed number of participants, admission will be decided by drawing lots for students who are ranked equally.

This course is open to students studying biology, mathematics or computer science. Students must have at least 120 study points to apply. Students must have a basic understanding of biology/molecular biology?at least corresponding to 10 university study points in molecular biology or similar.

The course might be relevant also for students without this background, but candidates should in this case contact the course coordinator before signing up.

Overlapping courses

Teaching

The course is given as?five weeks intensive course that consists of:

  • Lectures
  • In-class tutorials?
  • Exercises

It is only necessary to be physically present at the UiO campus for certain parts of the course.

An 80% attendance is mandatory for the lectures. You will lose your seat on the course if documentation for absence is not provided to the student administration studieinfo@ibv.uio.no?before the first lecture.

Compulsory assignments must be approved and compulsory attendance must be completed in order to sit for the exam.

Access to teaching:

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework a