Course teacher(s)
Matthieu DEFRANCE (Coordinator) and Wim VRANKENECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
english
Course content
This course will provide an introduction to computational methods applied to biological questions. After an introduction to the computational biology domain, the notion of sequence aliment, motif discovery, protein structure will be detailed. A particular emphasis will be put on notion related to protein structure prediction and methods related to Next Generation Sequencing data analysis.
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
This course focusses on computational biology.
The goal of this course is to provide students with the necessary skills i) to understand computational biology research, ii) to grasp the workings of some of the key algorithms that were developed to solve particular problems in molecular biology iii) to understand the role of different computational methods in solving these problems, iv) to know where certain molecular data can be found and how to combine this, v) to be able to develop a project that tries to solve some problem in this domain. In addition, this knowledge will allow you to understand the literature on bioinformatics and computational biology.
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Cours co-requis
Teaching methods and learning activities
Oral presentations + Assignments.
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
Provided in the slides.
Other information
Contacts
Matthieu Defrance
Département d'Informatique
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Boulevard du Triomphe CP 212
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: 02/650.58.68
Email: mathieu.defrance@ulb.be
Campus
Plaine
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- Other
Other
During the course sessions, students will receive assignments. These assignments will be graded and the points will be used in the calculation of the final course grade.
For the exam, students will present an article, discussing the context, methods. results and conclusions drawn by the authors.
The quality of the project and the quality of the presentation (together with the points for the assignments) will determine the final points for this cours
Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)
50% on the assignments
50% on the oral presentation
Language(s) of evaluation
- english