35498 - Networks of protein-protein interactions

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Rita Casadio
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: BIO/10
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Pharmaceutical Biotecnology (cod. 8180)

Learning outcomes

A systemic approach for understanding matabolism and the principal metabolic patways.

Course contents

Systems biology a new approach to understand the relationship among protein-protein, protein-DNA, and protein-RNA intercation and the different phenotypes. Networks of protein-protein interactions: how to cope with different experimental data and their representation. The concept of "hub". How to extract features from their models. The scale free networks. Are biological processes scale free?

Readings/Bibliography

on-line

Teaching methods

Lectures and practicum

Assessment methods

Final test, oral examination

Teaching tools

PC, internet

Office hours

See the website of Rita Casadio