3 ECTS credits
80 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4018201ENR for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.
Partim Bioinformatics:
- 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
Power point presentations from classes + selected book chapters/articles for recent advances
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.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Written Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Oral exam after written preparation
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Biology: Molecular and Cellular Life sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Biology: Education (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Biology: Molecular and Cellular Life sciences
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: biologie (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)