- Docente: Maria Paola Turina
- Credits: 6
- SSD: BIO/10
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Bioinformatics (cod. 8020)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student acquires expertise in
designing, implementing and curating data bases. The student will
also be trained on the major biologically and medically oriented
public data bases and how to retrieve and extract information for
problem solving. Major tools accessible from specific data bases
will be also utilized in order to facilitate information retrieval
and data analysis.
Course contents
Introduction to biomedical databases, NCBI, EBI,
Uniprot, PDB and domain databases, EnsEMBL.
Readings/Bibliography
"Introduction to Bioinformatics", Arthur Lesk, Oxford University
Press.
Teaching methods
Lectures, practical activities in the informatics laboratory.
Assessment methods
A written examination followed by an oral/practical test.
Teaching tools
Video projector, PC with internet connection, informatics
laboratory.
Office hours
See the website of Maria Paola Turina