Seminar on Analysis and Assembly of Big Bioinformatics Data

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Bioinformatiikka
Syventävät opinnot
The massive sequence data produced by modern high-throughput DNA sequencing machines is the primary driver of current molecular biology and genetics. The seminar will cover topics in the reconstruction, comparison, motif finding and probabilistic modeling of biological sequences. The seminar is suitable for students with basic knowledge of algorithms and /or probabilistic modeling and/or bioinformatics (course "Algorithms in Bionformatics"or "Biological Sequence Analysis").
Vuosi Lukukausi Päivämäärä Periodi Kieli Vastuuhenkilö
2015 kevät 14.01-29.04. 3-4 Englanti Esko Ukkonen

Luennot

Aika Huone Luennoija Päivämäärä
Ke 14-16 C220 Esko Ukkonen 14.01.2015-25.02.2015
Ke 14-16 C220 Esko Ukkonen 11.03.2015-29.04.2015

Yleistä


The massive sequence data produced by modern high-throughput DNA sequencing machines is the primary driver of current molecular biology and genetics. The seminar will cover topics in the reconstruction, comparison, motif finding and probabilistic modeling of biological sequences. The seminar is suitable for students with basic knowledge of algorithms and /or probabilistic modeling and/or bioinformatics (course "Algorithms in Bionformatics"or "Biological Sequence Analysis").

Also see the global learning objectives of seminars at the department: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/courses/seminaarien-ennakkoilmoittautuminen/matrix

This seminar will work in English.

Kurssin suorittaminen

Participants must have completed the course Scientific writing or have equivalent skills. A maximum of 12 students will be elected for the seminar on the basis of their application and previous studies.

Students are expected to actively participate in the seminar work: the working include studying scientific sources, writing reports and giving presentations, reading the reports of other participants and evaluating them, and actively following presentations.

The detailed schedule of the seminar will be fixed in the first sessions. There will be 2-hour sessions in the first part of the seminar and a couple of longer, full day sessions at the end.  The seminar requires independent home work throughout the semester.

Each student will have three roles in the seminar: (1) a writer and speaker, (2) reviewer of two other reports, (3) audience for the rest of the reports and oral presentations.

The grading will be based on each student's own written work, oral presentation, and commentary on the reports of others as well as activeness in general. To pass the seminar, each of these components must be passed. Active attendance of seminar meetings is obligatory (absense from at most two meetings is accepted (will affect grading)).

Kirjallisuus ja materiaali

Suitable topics and source literature will be listed here later.