Course Unit Page
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Teacher Maria Paola Turina
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Learning modules Maria Paola Turina (Modulo 1)
Davide Salomoni (Modulo 2)
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Credits 6
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SSD BIO/10
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Teaching Mode Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
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Language English
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Campus of Bologna
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Degree Programme Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Bioinformatics (cod. 8020)
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Course Timetable from Nov 11, 2021 to Jan 19, 2022
Course Timetable from Jan 21, 2022 to Jan 31, 2022
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
Academic Year 2021/2022
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
Module 1 (3.5 CFU, 28 ore, docente: Prof. M. Paola Turina)
- Introduction to biomedical databases.
- Overview and training on the UniProt database.
- Overview and training on the molecular structure database PDB at RCSB. Training on molecular visualization software.
- Overview and training on the NCBI databases: Genbank, Refseq, dbSNP, Gene, PubMed/MeSH, OMIM.
- Overview and training on the EnsEMBL Genome database.
Module 2 (2.5 CFU, 20 ore, docente: Prof. Davide Salomoni)
- Introduction to databases; structure, contents, general features
- Relational databases
- Non-relational databases (including key-value and graph databases)
- Streaming biological data into databases
- How to programmatically interact with databases: data retrieval, annotation and analysis
- Create your own database
Readings/Bibliography
Online materials and other suggested readings will be indicated during the course.
Teaching methods
Lectures and hands-on activities.
Assessment methods
A written test, a personal project, and a final oral discussion.
Teaching tools
Slides of all lectures and hands-on sessions will be available.
Office hours
See the website of Maria Paola Turina
See the website of Davide Salomoni
Alumni