Bioinformatics course

Bioinformatics: A course in bioinformatics for molecular biology (10.0/8.0 credit points)

Description The aim of the course is to introduce students to bioinformatics resources and tools for molecular biology research by having some of the best researchers in Norway to talk about their field in general and then present their own work. Students are encouraged to bring a lap-top; we will be set up for in-course demonstrations as well as practical lab exercises. The course is intended for biology students or computer science/math students. No prior background in bioinformatics or computer science is required.

The course is jointly delivered by the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, the Department of Molecular Biosciences (IMBV), the Department of Informatics (IFI) and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. This course is one of the Ph.D. School courses offered by the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo (http://www.biotek.uio.no/ny-web/events/).

Registration is now open as of July 3rd, 2009.

MBV-INF 4410 (M.Sc. level course code)10.0 study points

MBV-INF 9410A (Ph.D. level course code) 10.0 study points

MBV-INF 9410B (Ph.D. level course code) 8.0 study points

The course can be taken as a full course (10 credit points) or as a short version without writing the essay (8 credit points) for Ph.D. level students.

NOTE: The description of the course at http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/molbio/MBV-INF4410/ is old and will be updated to reflect the course content and format described on this page.

Please bookmark this page. All future changes or announcements for the 2009 course will be posted to this page.

            Information: 
                 ragni.indahl@biotek.uio.no (about course administration) 
                 ian.donaldson@biotek.uio.no (about course content)
            Registration: 
                 torill.rortveit@imbv.uio.no

Dates and times

The course will occur in weeks 37 and 38 (September 7th and 14th).

Each day will consist of three time slots for lectures and/or practical labs between 9 AM and 4 PM.

Place

Forskningsparken

Directions to Forsknings parken can be found at http://www.biotek.uio.no/map.html

Mondays to Thursdays: Room 10 (one level down from the main entrance)

Fridays: Room 7 (one level down from the main entrance)

Exceptions: none so far

Lunch is on your own between 1:00 PM and 2:15 PM (except 15th and 22nd: 11:00 AM to 12:30). Please completely vacate the room during these lunch times.

Programme

Please note: The displayed programme is a preliminary schedule under development. Changes are possible.

Bioinformatics 2009

Time	Speaker	Contact	Details and suggested readings
Day 1 - Monday September 7
9.00-9.15	Ian Donaldson	http://donaldson.uio.no	Introduction
9.15-11.00			Statistics I
11:15-13.00
14.15-16.00
Day 2 - Tuesday September 8
9.15-11.00			Statistics II
11:15-13.00
14.15-16.00
Day 3 -Wednesday September 9
9.15-11.00	Ståle Nygård	http://www.heartfailure.no/people/member/nyg_rd.html	Microarray data analysis
11:15-13.00			Microarrays
14.15-16.00			Microarrays
Day 4 - Thursday September 10
9.15-11.00	Torbjørn Rognes	http://www.rr-research.no/rognes/	Sequence alignments and BLASTing
11:15-13.00	Robert Lyle		High throughput sequencing
14.15-16.00	Geir K. Sandve		Motif scanning and discovery in DNA
Day 5 - Friday September 11
9.15-11.00	Dave W. Ussery		Comparative genomics
11:15-13.00	Multiple		Sequence lab
14.15-16.00	Multiple		Sequence lab
Day 6 - Monday September 14
9.15-11.00	Bjørn Dalhus		Structural biology review and PyMOL
11:15-13.00	Jon K. Laerdahl		Structural bioinformatics tools, predictors, and 3D modeling
14.15-16.00	Dalhus and Laerdahl		Structural tutorials and exercises
Day 7 - Tuesday September 15
9.15-11.00	Ian Donaldson	http://donaldson.uio.no	Working with gene lists and over-representation analysis
11:15-13.00	Ian Donaldson		Interaction, Complex and Pathway data resources
14.15-16.00	Antonio Mora, Sabry Razick, Paul Boddie		Interaction lab
Day 8 - Wednesday September 16
9.15-10.00	Erik Plahte	http://www.cigene.no/people.html	Modelling paradigms for gene regulatory networks
10.15-11.00	Arne Gjuvsland	http://www.cigene.no/people.html	Causally cohesive genotype-phenotype modelling - systems biology meets genetics
11.15-12.00	Jon Olav Vik	http://www.cigene.no/people.html	cGP map of the cardiomyocyte
12:15-13.00	Harald Martens	http://www.cigene.no/people.html	QTL analysis with biospectroscopy - on cows and milk
13:00-14.15	Lunch
14.15-15.00	Achim Kohler	http://www.cigene.no/people.html	A new phenotyping paradigm for yeast
15.15-16.00	Solve Sæbø	http://www.umb.no/ikbm/ansatte/solve.sabo	Multivariate analysis of yeast genetic data (Regner med at Lars er borte da.)
Day 9 - Thursday September 17
9.15-12.00	Other ideas: Student presentations, Programming (Python, Taverna, R), Machine learning, BioPortal, EMBNet, Genome browser, text mining and PubGene, SIMULA and modelling
Day 10 - Friday September 18
9.15-12.00	Open lab and study session
Day 11 - Monday September 21
9.15-13.15	Exam (4 hour written open book)