68470 - ELEMENTS OF BIOINFORMATICS

Anno Accademico 2013/2014

  • Docente: Piero Fariselli
  • Crediti formativi: 4
  • SSD: INF/01
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Bioinformatics (cod. 8020)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

At the end of the course the student acquires a basic skill in programming and at the same time introducing basic bioinformatics notions. In particular, student will be able to: - work in a Linux/Unix environment; - write simple shell-scripts to deal with biological files; - write python programs to solve simple problems for the biological sequence analysis.

Contenuti

Prerequisites: Basic calculus.
Basic concept of probability, joint probability, conditional probability, Bayes theorem, applications to bioinformatics.

Testi/Bibliografia

  • http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/piero/EBI/
  • Schaum's Outline: Probability and Statistics, Second Edition by Murray R. Spiegel, John J. Schiller and R. Alu Srinivasan (Mar 17, 2000)

Metodi didattici

Lectures and practical sessions (guided and free)

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Written tests and a final examination.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Personal computer and overhead projector

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Piero Fariselli