5 ECTS credits
125 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4017436FNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Faculty
Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
Department
Bio-Engineering Sciences
Educational team
Peter Tompa (course titular)
Mainak Guha Roy
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
45 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Partim Bioinformatics:

Give detailed introduction on:

- Omics technologies (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Metagenomics)

- Databases and web resources
- Sequence alignment, BLAST, substitution matrices
- Multiple alignment
- Phylogenetic analysis

- Secondary and tertiary structure determination
- Function prediction and annotation
- Genomics data treatment: genome assembly, mapping, gene prediction
- Metagenomics data treatment
- Proteomics data treatment

Additional info

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Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Completion of the course will enable to address important biological questions through the integrated use of computational tools and the confidence in navigation through high-throughput omics and manually curated databases of genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, metaboloms, and phenomes.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Oral exam based on list of pre-defined questions

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Molecular Biology: Standaard traject