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=Bioinformatics for molecular biology - Fall 2010=
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==Description==
 
==Description==
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The UiO page for this course is http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/molbio/MBV-INF4410/.
 
The UiO page for this course is http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/molbio/MBV-INF4410/.
  
'''Registration will be open in May of 2010.  Check back here for details'''
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'''Registration will be open in June of 2011.  Check back here for details'''
  
 
MBV-INF 4410 (M.Sc. level course code)10.0 study points
 
MBV-INF 4410 (M.Sc. level course code)10.0 study points
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MBV-INF 9410A (Ph.D. level course code) 8.0 study points
 
MBV-INF 9410A (Ph.D. level course code) 8.0 study points
  
The course consists of two weeks of lectures, a final take-home exam (one week) and an essay (10 to 20 pages) to be completed by end of October.   
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The course consists of two weeks of lectures, a final take-home exam (one week) and an essay (10 to 20 pages) to be completed by the middle of December.   
  
 
Ph.D. level students may opt to take the course without the essay for only 8 study points.   
 
Ph.D. level students may opt to take the course without the essay for only 8 study points.   
  
Please bookmark this page.  All future changes or announcements for the 2010 course will be posted to this page.
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Please bookmark this page.  All future changes or announcements for the 2011 course will be posted to this page.
  
 
             '''Information:'''  
 
             '''Information:'''  
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==Dates and times==
 
==Dates and times==
The course will occur September 6th to 17th.
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The course will occur November 21st to December 2nd.
  
 
Each day will consist of three time slots for lectures and/or practical labs between 9 AM and 4 PM.
 
Each day will consist of three time slots for lectures and/or practical labs between 9 AM and 4 PM.
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Exceptions: none so far
 
Exceptions: none so far
  
Lunch is on your own between 1:00 PM and 2:15 PM. Please completely vacate the room during these lunch times.
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Lunch is on your own between 1:00 PM and 2:15 PM (Monday to Thursday) and 12 to 13:30 on Fridays. Please completely vacate the room during these lunch times.
  
 
==Programme==
 
==Programme==
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Please note:
 
Please note:
 
The schedule displayed below is based on last years course  
 
The schedule displayed below is based on last years course  
(see http://donaldson.uio.no/wiki/Bioinformatics_for_molecular_biology_2009).
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(see http://donaldson.uio.no/wiki/Bioinformatics_for_molecular_biology_2010).
 
Ongoing changes will be made to this page as we organize  
 
Ongoing changes will be made to this page as we organize  
 
speakers before and during the course.   
 
speakers before and during the course.   
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!width="5%"|Time
 
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!width="50%"|Details and suggested readings
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 1 - Monday September 6
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 1 - Monday November 21st
 
|-
 
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|9.00-9.15||Ian Donaldson||http://donaldson.uio.no ||Introduction
 
|9.00-9.15||Ian Donaldson||http://donaldson.uio.no ||Introduction
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[http://donaldson.uio.no/wikifiles//images/3/39/Intro_R_lab_2010.pdf Introduction to R - Lab]
 
[http://donaldson.uio.no/wikifiles//images/3/39/Intro_R_lab_2010.pdf Introduction to R - Lab]
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 2 - Tuesday September 7
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 2 - Tuesday November 22nd
 
|-
 
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|9.15-11.00|| Clara-Cecilie Günther  || http://www.nr.no/ ||  
 
|9.15-11.00|| Clara-Cecilie Günther  || http://www.nr.no/ ||  
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 3 -Wednesday September 8
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 3 -Wednesday November 23rd
 
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|9.15-11.00 || Leonardo Meza-Zepeda || Dept. of Tumor Biology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center ||  
 
|9.15-11.00 || Leonardo Meza-Zepeda || Dept. of Tumor Biology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center ||  
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|14.15-16.00|| Ståle Nygård ||  || [http://donaldson.uio.no/wikifiles//images/5/58/R-lab-sn-2010.pdf R Microarray data analysis lab]  
 
|14.15-16.00|| Ståle Nygård ||  || [http://donaldson.uio.no/wikifiles//images/5/58/R-lab-sn-2010.pdf R Microarray data analysis lab]  
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 4 - Thursday September 9
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 4 - Thursday November 24th
 
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|9.15-11.00 || Torbjørn Rognes || http://www.rr-research.no/rognes/ ||   
 
|9.15-11.00 || Torbjørn Rognes || http://www.rr-research.no/rognes/ ||   
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[http://bioinformatics.uio.no/wikifiles//images/a/a2/Pres9sep10_general_tf_analysis_in_HB.pdf General TF analysis - a simple approach]
 
[http://bioinformatics.uio.no/wikifiles//images/a/a2/Pres9sep10_general_tf_analysis_in_HB.pdf General TF analysis - a simple approach]
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 5 - Friday September 10
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 5 - Friday November 25th
 
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|9.15-11.00 ||  
 
|9.15-11.00 ||  
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|16.00-  || TGIF ||  ||  Forskningsparken pub
 
|16.00-  || TGIF ||  ||  Forskningsparken pub
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 6 - Monday September 13
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 6 - Monday November 28th
 
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|9:00-11:00|| Robert Lyle ||  ||
 
|9:00-11:00|| Robert Lyle ||  ||
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[http://donaldson.uio.no/wikifiles//images/c/c0/Bioportal_2010.pdf Bioportal]
 
[http://donaldson.uio.no/wikifiles//images/c/c0/Bioportal_2010.pdf Bioportal]
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 7 - Tuesday September 14
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 7 - Tuesday November 29th
 
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|9.15-11.00 || Jon K. Laerdahl  ||  
 
|9.15-11.00 || Jon K. Laerdahl  ||  
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|14.15-16.00|| Jon K. Laerdahl ||  || [http://folk.uio.no/jonkl/pubstuff/PyMOL_Tutorial-JKL.pdf PyMOL and structural biology tutorial]
 
|14.15-16.00|| Jon K. Laerdahl ||  || [http://folk.uio.no/jonkl/pubstuff/PyMOL_Tutorial-JKL.pdf PyMOL and structural biology tutorial]
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 8 - Wednesday September 15
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 8 - Wednesday November 30th
 
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|9.15-11.00 || Jon K. Laerdahl ||  ||  Structural modeling tutorial: Practical exercises
 
|9.15-11.00 || Jon K. Laerdahl ||  ||  Structural modeling tutorial: Practical exercises
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|14.15-16.00|| Jon K. Laerdahl ||  || [http://folk.uio.no/jonkl/pubstuff/HomologyModel-Exercise-JKL.pdf Homology modeling exercise]
 
|14.15-16.00|| Jon K. Laerdahl ||  || [http://folk.uio.no/jonkl/pubstuff/HomologyModel-Exercise-JKL.pdf Homology modeling exercise]
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 9 - Thursday September 16
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 9 - Thursday December 1st
 
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|9.15-11.00 || Ian Donaldson || http://donaldson.uio.no ||   
 
|9.15-11.00 || Ian Donaldson || http://donaldson.uio.no ||   
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|14.15-16.00|| Sabry Razick, Paul Boddie || http://donaldson.uio.no || iRefScape plugin tutorial and lab.  See http://cytoscape.org and http://irefindex.uio.no/wiki/README_Cytoscape_plugin_0.9x. Tutorial :http://irefindex.uio.no/wikifiles//images/5/59/Interaction_lab_2010.pdf
 
|14.15-16.00|| Sabry Razick, Paul Boddie || http://donaldson.uio.no || iRefScape plugin tutorial and lab.  See http://cytoscape.org and http://irefindex.uio.no/wiki/README_Cytoscape_plugin_0.9x. Tutorial :http://irefindex.uio.no/wikifiles//images/5/59/Interaction_lab_2010.pdf
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 10 - Friday September 17
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 10 - Friday December 2nd
 
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|9.15-10.00 || Ian Donaldson || || [http://donaldson.uio.no/wikifiles//images/a/a7/GO%2C_DAVID_and_iRefScape_revisited_2010.pdf GO DAVID and IRefScape revisited]  
 
|9.15-10.00 || Ian Donaldson || || [http://donaldson.uio.no/wikifiles//images/a/a7/GO%2C_DAVID_and_iRefScape_revisited_2010.pdf GO DAVID and IRefScape revisited]  
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Students enrolled in MBV-INF4410 or 9410 must complete a written assignment as part of the course requirements.   
 
Students enrolled in MBV-INF4410 or 9410 must complete a written assignment as part of the course requirements.   
  
The assignment is due by Friday, October 29th.  It should be emailed to ian.donaldson at biotek.uio.no preferably as a PDF document (Microsoft Word or OpenOffice is also acceptable).  The assignment is to be between 10 pages and 20 pages (2000 to 4000 words).  This is a rough guide (I wont be counting pages and words - quality and conciseness count more than quantity).
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The assignment is due by Friday, December 16th.  It should be emailed to ian.donaldson at biotek.uio.no preferably as a PDF document (Microsoft Word or OpenOffice is also acceptable).  The assignment is to be between 10 pages and 20 pages (2000 to 4000 words).  This is a rough guide (I wont be counting pages and words - quality and conciseness count more than quantity).
 
    
 
    
 
Topics include:
 
Topics include:
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The exam for this course will be a one week take home exam.   
 
The exam for this course will be a one week take home exam.   
  
The exam will be emailed to candidates on Monday, September 20th before 5PM.   
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The exam will be emailed to candidates on Monday, December 5th before 5PM.   
  
The exam must be emailed back by Monday, September 27th at 5 PM to  
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The exam must be emailed back by Monday, September 12th at 5 PM to  
  
 
Torill Rortveit (torill.rortveit@imbv.uio.no) as a single PDF document
 
Torill Rortveit (torill.rortveit@imbv.uio.no) as a single PDF document
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(Microsoft Word or an Open Office Document is also acceptable).  The document  
 
(Microsoft Word or an Open Office Document is also acceptable).  The document  
  
should be named with your candidate number only (e.g. 1.pdf).  Do not place your
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should be named with the course code and your candidate number only  
 
 
name in the document.
 
  
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(e.g. MBV-INF 4410-1.pdf).  Do not place your name in the document.
 
   
 
   
 
</pre>
 
</pre>
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{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" border="1" cellpadding="5"
|+ '''Bioinformatics Links 2010'''
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|+ '''Bioinformatics Links 2011'''
 
!width="20%"|Name
 
!width="20%"|Name
 
!width="40%"|URL
 
!width="40%"|URL
 
!width="40%"|Description
 
!width="40%"|Description
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 1-2: Statistics
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"|Statistics
 
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|StatSoft textbook || http://statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html || Good overview of methods and concepts
 
|StatSoft textbook || http://statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html || Good overview of methods and concepts
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|CBW tutorials || http://bioinformatics.ca || Portal to the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop material.  Includes R, statistics and lots more.
 
|CBW tutorials || http://bioinformatics.ca || Portal to the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop material.  Includes R, statistics and lots more.
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 3 - Microarrays
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"|Microarrays
 
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|NMC || http://www.mikromatrise.no/ || Norwegian Microarray Consrtium
 
|NMC || http://www.mikromatrise.no/ || Norwegian Microarray Consrtium
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|Bioinformatics core facility || http://core.rr-research.no/index.php?section=3 || The Bioinformatics Core Facility established at Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet (RR) will provide its users at RR and the University of Oslo with a range of services within bioinformatics, including analysis of DNA and protein sequences, analysis of microarray data, protein structure analysis and access to useful databases and web services
 
|Bioinformatics core facility || http://core.rr-research.no/index.php?section=3 || The Bioinformatics Core Facility established at Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet (RR) will provide its users at RR and the University of Oslo with a range of services within bioinformatics, including analysis of DNA and protein sequences, analysis of microarray data, protein structure analysis and access to useful databases and web services
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 4 - 5 Sequence
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"|Sequence
 
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|RSAT || [http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/rsat/ RSAT] || A collection of several motif-related tools
 
|RSAT || [http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/rsat/ RSAT] || A collection of several motif-related tools
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|ConTra|| [http://bioit.dmbr.ugent.be/ConTra/index.php ConTra] || A more user-friendly tool for matching a collection of Position Weighted Matrices against promoter sequences across species
 
|ConTra|| [http://bioit.dmbr.ugent.be/ConTra/index.php ConTra] || A more user-friendly tool for matching a collection of Position Weighted Matrices against promoter sequences across species
 
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 6 -
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|style="background:SteelBlue; color:white" colspan="4" align="center"| Day 7 -
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|Required files || [Sample network[http://bioinformatics.uio.no/wikifiles//images/8/8c/SAMPLE_1_network.xls.zip]] [Node atributes[http://bioinformatics.uio.no/wikifiles//images/c/c2/SAMPLE_1_nodeatribute.xls.zip]]|| Please download these and uncompress before using
 
|Required files || [Sample network[http://bioinformatics.uio.no/wikifiles//images/8/8c/SAMPLE_1_network.xls.zip]] [Node atributes[http://bioinformatics.uio.no/wikifiles//images/c/c2/SAMPLE_1_nodeatribute.xls.zip]]|| Please download these and uncompress before using

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Bioinformatics for molecular biology - Fall 2011

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/). The UiO page for this course is http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/molbio/MBV-INF4410/.

Registration will be open in June of 2011. Check back here for details

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

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

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

The course consists of two weeks of lectures, a final take-home exam (one week) and an essay (10 to 20 pages) to be completed by the middle of December.

Ph.D. level students may opt to take the course without the essay for only 8 study points.

Please bookmark this page. All future changes or announcements for the 2011 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 November 21st to December 2nd.

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

Place

Forskningsparken

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

Mondays to Friday morning: Room 10 (one level down from the main entrance) The room is booked each day from 09:00 to 16:00 EXCEPT Fridays when the room must be vacated from 12 to 13:30.

Exceptions: none so far

Lunch is on your own between 1:00 PM and 2:15 PM (Monday to Thursday) and 12 to 13:30 on Fridays. Please completely vacate the room during these lunch times.

Programme

Please note:
The schedule displayed below is based on last years course 
(see http://donaldson.uio.no/wiki/Bioinformatics_for_molecular_biology_2010).
Ongoing changes will be made to this page as we organize 
speakers before and during the course.  
Requests and suggestions are welcome.
Bioinformatics 2011
Time Speaker Contact Details and suggested readings
Day 1 - Monday November 21st
9.00-9.15 Ian Donaldson http://donaldson.uio.no Introduction
9.15-11.00 Ian Donaldson http://donaldson.uio.no

Exploratory data analysis Extra material

11:15-13.00 Bjørn-Helge Mevik http://www.usit.uio.no/suf/vd/

Introduction to R - Presentation

14.15-16.00

Bjørn-Helge Mevik

Katerina Michalickova

http://www.usit.uio.no/suf/vd/

Introduction to R - Lab

Day 2 - Tuesday November 22nd
9.15-11.00 Clara-Cecilie Günther http://www.nr.no/

An introduction to statistical inference

11:15-13.00 Einar A. Rødland http://folk.uio.no/einarro/

Multiple hypothesis testing

14.15-16.00 Ian Donaldson http://donaldson.uio.no

MySQL installation and tutorial

Day 3 -Wednesday November 23rd
9.15-11.00 Leonardo Meza-Zepeda Dept. of Tumor Biology, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center

Microarray technology

Integrated genomic analysis

11:15-13.00 Ståle Nygård http://core.rr-research.no/index.php?section=22

Microarray data analysis

14.15-16.00 Ståle Nygård R Microarray data analysis lab
Day 4 - Thursday November 24th
9.15-11.00 Torbjørn Rognes http://www.rr-research.no/rognes/

Searching sequence databases and multiple sequence alighments.

11:15-13.00 Geir K. Sandve http://www.uio.no/sok?la=en&person=geirksa Motif scanning and discovery in DNA
14.15-16.00

Geir K. Sandve

Halfden

Vegard Nygaard

Sequence lab

RSAT

ConTra

General TF analysis - a simple approach

Day 5 - Friday November 25th
9.15-11.00

Sveinung Gundersen

Geir K. Sandve

The Genomic Hyperbrowser

The Hyperbrowser tutorial

Hyperbrowser tutorial http://hyperbrowser.uio.no/

11.15-12:00 Dave W. Ussery http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/staff/dave/ Comparative genomics

Cautionary Tales for Next Generation Sequencing

12.00-13:30 Lunch -vacate room
13:30-14:15 Dave W. Ussery http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/staff/dave/ Comparative genomics

Comparative genomics - bacterial genomes.

14.15-15.30 Sequence lab

Three views

EColi. Atlas

BLAST Atlas

GeneWiz Browser

Physical Maps of Chromosomes

The 1000th Genome

16.00- TGIF Forskningsparken pub
Day 6 - Monday November 28th
9:00-11:00 Robert Lyle

High throughput sequencing

11:15-13.00 George Magklaras http://www.no.embnet.org/

Biological sequence mining with MRS

MRS and EMBOSS lab

13:00-14:00 Lunch
14.15-16.00 Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi (TBC) http://www.bioportal.uio.no

Bioportal

Day 7 - Tuesday November 29th
9.15-11.00 Jon K. Laerdahl

http://folk.uio.no/jonkl/

http://www.rr-research.no/rognes/

http://www.bioinformatikk.no/

Structural biology review

PyMOL

Installing PyMol

11:15-13.00 Jon K. Laerdahl

Structural bioinformatics tools, predictors, and 3D modeling

14.15-16.00 Jon K. Laerdahl PyMOL and structural biology tutorial
Day 8 - Wednesday November 30th
9.15-11.00 Jon K. Laerdahl Structural modeling tutorial: Practical exercises

Modeling Guide

11:15-13.00 Jon K. Laerdahl Modeling excercises
14.15-16.00 Jon K. Laerdahl Homology modeling exercise
Day 9 - Thursday December 1st
9.15-11.00 Ian Donaldson http://donaldson.uio.no

Interaction data resources

Identifier conversion excercise

11:15-13.00 Sabry Razick, Paul Boddie http://donaldson.uio.no

Cytoscape tutorial and lab

14.15-16.00 Sabry Razick, Paul Boddie http://donaldson.uio.no iRefScape plugin tutorial and lab. See http://cytoscape.org and http://irefindex.uio.no/wiki/README_Cytoscape_plugin_0.9x. Tutorial :http://irefindex.uio.no/wikifiles//images/5/59/Interaction_lab_2010.pdf
Day 10 - Friday December 2nd
9.15-10.00 Ian Donaldson GO DAVID and IRefScape revisited

Working with gene lists and over-representation analysis

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

12.00-13:30 Lunch -vacate room
13:30-14:15 Katerina Michalickova

http://hpc.uio.no/index.php/Main_Page

http://www.usit.uio.no/suf/vd/

TITAN cluster for beginners
14.30-15.15
15.15-16.00

Written assignment

Students enrolled in MBV-INF4410 or 9410 must complete a written assignment as part of the course requirements.

The assignment is due by Friday, December 16th. It should be emailed to ian.donaldson at biotek.uio.no preferably as a PDF document (Microsoft Word or OpenOffice is also acceptable). The assignment is to be between 10 pages and 20 pages (2000 to 4000 words). This is a rough guide (I wont be counting pages and words - quality and conciseness count more than quantity).

Topics include:


1) write an explanation of three or more methods that were covered in the course. These should be simple explanations aimed at someone approaching the topic for the first time. Your explanation may include derivations of equations (if they are clearly explained), figures or tables. Use examples. Describe how the concept can be applied to a problem in biological research and what limitations the method has. List any resources you use as well as references to additional material that a student might use if they want to follow up on the topic further. Please indicate whether your material may be used on the course's wiki page.


2) describe how you would use two or more of the methods covered in the course in your own research. Your proposal may include figures or tables. Give a short introduction to your problem area, clearly state your hypothesis and how you think it might be addressed by each of the methods. Provide justifications for your proposal as well as expected outcome. Describe potential risks (say, the method provides no meaningful results) and what you would do to mitigate this risk. List any resources you use.


3) you may define your own alternative topic. Please send an email to ian.donaldson at biotek.uio.no to have your topic approved first.

Exam

Please note:

The exam for this course will be a one week take home exam.  

The exam will be emailed to candidates on Monday, December 5th before 5PM.  

The exam must be emailed back by Monday, September 12th at 5 PM to 

Torill Rortveit (torill.rortveit@imbv.uio.no) as a single PDF document

(Microsoft Word or an Open Office Document is also acceptable).  The document 

should be named with the course code and your candidate number only 

(e.g. MBV-INF 4410-1.pdf).  Do not place your name in the document.
 

Bioinformatics links relevant to the course

Bioinformatics Links 2011
Name URL Description
Statistics
StatSoft textbook http://statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html Good overview of methods and concepts
SAS manuals http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/ Thorough overview of analysis procedures found in SAS
GraphPad http://graphpad.com/help/prism5/prism5help.html?usingstatistical_analyses_step_by_s.htm See the GraphPad statistical guide for easy introductions to many concepts in statistics
R http://cran.r-project.org/ The Comprehensive R Archive Network

Introduction to R

Exploratory data analysis

Hypothesis testing

http://bioinformatics.ca/workshops/2009/course-content See the CBW course on "Exploratory Data Analysis Essential Statistics using R" at the bottom of this page. Slides and lecture recordings from Modules 1-3 cover much of the same material covered in the first two days of this course.
Learning R http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000482 A Quick Guide to Teaching R Programming to Computational Biology Students
R reference card http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf A reference card for R syntax
UCLA tutorials http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/ Useful example code while learning R
R vs. other languages http://www.johndcook.com/R_language_for_programmers.html A brief description of how R differs from other programming languages. Useful if you already know a programming language.
Which test do I use http://www.practicalstats.com/which/index.html An interactive guide to choosing which statistical test to use.
EMBNet Microarray course http://vit-embnet.unil.ch/CoursEMBnet/Arrays06/Material.html An online course with R/Bioconductor example tutorials
EMBNet tutorials http://www.ch.embnet.org/pages/courses2.html Other helpful tutorials with R examples related to biostatistics
SIB tutorials http://edu.isb-sib.ch/ Portal to the SIB bioinformatics tutorials - includes R, Unix, Perl, statisitics and lots more.
CBW tutorials http://bioinformatics.ca Portal to the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop material. Includes R, statistics and lots more.
Microarrays
NMC http://www.mikromatrise.no/ Norwegian Microarray Consrtium
MACF http://core.rr-research.no/ UiO MicroArray Facility
Bioinformatics core facility http://core.rr-research.no/index.php?section=3 The Bioinformatics Core Facility established at Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet (RR) will provide its users at RR and the University of Oslo with a range of services within bioinformatics, including analysis of DNA and protein sequences, analysis of microarray data, protein structure analysis and access to useful databases and web services
Sequence
RSAT RSAT A collection of several motif-related tools
ConTra ConTra A more user-friendly tool for matching a collection of Position Weighted Matrices against promoter sequences across species
Structure
Networks
Required files [Sample network[1]] [Node atributes[2]] Please download these and uncompress before using
Cytoscape http://www.cytoscape.org/ Cytoscape home page
Cytoscape http://cytoscape.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Presentations Tutorial on Cytoscape
Cytoscape http://cytoscape.wodaklab.org/wiki/How_to_increase_memory_for_Cytoscape Solution to common problem with working with large networks in Cytoscape.
iRefIndex Cytoscape plugin http://irefindex.uio.no/wiki/README_Cytoscape_plugin_0.9x iRefIndex installation
iRefIndex http://irefindex.uio.no iRefIndex wiki
iRefIndex publication http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=18823568 Full details of iRefIndex
DAVID http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v4/n1/pdf/nprot.2008.211.pdf Nature Protocols paper
GSEA http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsea/doc/subramanian_tamayo_gsea_pnas.pdf PNAS paper
GSEA http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsea Gene Set Enrichment Analysis application

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