Spring. This course has a limited capacity, enrollment is based on application. Application deadline is Thursday in week 2 for the spring semester.
Please see this page for more information:
You will receive confirmation of whether you received a spot in Studentweb no later than Tuesday the week after the deadline.
The first lecture / orientation meeting is compulsory, which means you will lose your spot if you do not attend class that day. The time of the first lecture / orientation meeting can be found in the schedule on the course website or on the "Mitt UiB" learning platform.
Objectives and Content
The course offers students a thorough training in the use of selected bioinformatic tools for the functional annotation of genes. The course includes projects where students work together. These exercises are based on bioinformatics research at the department. As part of working with the project, students are trained to critically evaluate methods and results. The theme of the projects may vary every year, but at the moment are based on RNA-seq. The course can be part of the Master's program in molecular biology as long as it does not overlap with the content of the master's thesis. It is the supervisor of the master thesis and course coordinator responsible for
The course aims to provide a thorough knowledge about selected bioinformatical tools through case-studies based on experimental data and evaluation of tool performance.
Upon completion of course MOL217, students should be able to:
- explain and discuss the choice of bioinformatics methods that can be used to explore a given problem related to the functional consequence of gene expression data, and use these methods to carry out a project assignment based on independent work and work in groups.
- analyze and discuss results from a major bioinformatics project assignment in the light of own data and data from scientific articles.
- present results and analyzes from a bioinformatics project assignment as a project report.