This list includes the major courses. Note that some of them can also be included as minor courses in Computer science, Statistics, Biology.

582604 Practical Course in Biodatabases (4 credits, Compulsory)
University Lecturer Sirkka-Liisa Varvio, Thu, Fri 14-16 Exactum BK107, Exercises Thu 16-18 B221 (III period)
Techniques for accessing and integrating data in biological databases are studied. Prerequisities: Introduction to Bioinformatics, basic programming skills.
Placement: 1st year

57734 Modelling inheritance in pedigrees and populations (4 credits)
University Lecturer Sirkka-Liisa Varvio, Tue 14-18, Exactum B120 (III period)
This course can also be included as minor subject studies in Biology.
Placement: 1st year

58310108 Seminar: Sequence assembly (3 credits)
Adjunct Professor Veli Mäkinen, Mon 12-14 Exactum C222 (III-IV periods)
Placement: 1st or 2nd year

58310107 Seminar: Neuroinformatics (3 credits)
Professor Aapo Hyvärinen, Thu 12-14 Exactum C222 (III-IV periods)
Placement: 1st or 2nd year

58309309 Seminar: Gene regulatory networks (3 credits)
Professor Esko Ukkonen, Mon 14-16 Exactum C222 (III-IV periods)
Placement: 1st or 2nd year

58307312 Master's thesis seminar
University Lecturer Sirkka-Liisa Varvio, Mon 16-17 Exactum room C220 (I-IV periods, Compulsory)
While working on the Master's thesis, the MBI student is expected to participate in the Master's thesis seminar on a regular basis and give two presentations, one on the research plan and the other on the (nearly) completed thesis. The Master's thesis seminar operates throughout the year.
Placement: 1st and 2nd year

57733 Computational statistics (10 credits)
University lecturer Petri Koistinen, Mon 12-14, Fri 12-14, Exercises Fri 10-12, Exactum B120 (III-IV periods)
This course can also be included as minor subject studies in Statistics.

T-61.5050 High-Throughput Bioinformatics (5-7 credits)
Jarkko Salojärvi, Tue 10-12, Exercises (TBA) Room T4, T-building, (III-IV periods), TKK
The course introduces computational and statistical methods for analyzing modern high-throughput biological data, in particular microarray data, and their use in systems biology. Necessary biological background is reviewed briefly.
Placement: 1st year

57710 Software tools for statisticians (2 credits)
R-course. University lecturer Petri Koistinen, Mon 10-12, Thu 10-12, C128 (III period, three first weeks)
This course is for minor subject studies in Statistics. Placement: 1st year

57729 Phylogenetic data analysis (6-8 credits)
University Lecturer Sirkka-Liisa Varvio, Tue 14-18, Exercises Thu 14-16, Exactum B120 (IV period)
Placement: 1st year

T-61.6070 Special course in bioinformatics I L (3-7 credits)
Professor Harri Lähdesmäki, Mon 12-14 room T4, Wed 10-12 NOTE: Wednesday may change to another day! Room T5, T-building (IV period)
Note: this course corresponds to a seminar course at HY.
Placement: 1st or 2nd year

Courses in biology and medicine / Spring 2010

399672 Biology for methodological scientists (8 credits, Compulsory)
Course continues from Autumn 2009 by modules III (III period) and IV (IV period).
Wednesdays in III and IV.
399672-3 Medical Genetics (III period) (20.01.2010-03.03.2010) (2 credits)
Elisabet Einarsdottir and Lotta Koskinen .
Deadline for registration 11.01.2010
399672-4 Developmental biology (IV period) (16.3.2010-5.5.2010) (2 credits)
Tiina Immonen.

399673 Measurement techniques for bioinformatics (6 credits, Compulsory)
Course continues from Autumn 2009.
Wednesdays in III and IV. There are also non-Wednesday sessions, see MBI teaching and event calendar

812010 Laboratory Course in Plant Molecular Biology (KBIOT401) (5 credits)
Professor Teemu Teeri, Professor Jari Valkonen
25.1-10.2.2010 at 9-16 (except on Mon and Thu at 12-16), Viikki C-building, course lab 144 (III period)
Relations to other study units: Basics in gene technology and plant molecular biology. Study materials and literature: Course manual. Evaluation: Laboratory report (pass/fail). Registration: via WebOodi.

81028 Laboratory Course in Plant Biotechnology (KBIOT301) (5 credits)
Professor Teemu Teeri, University Lecturer Mika Kotilainen
22.2.-.5.3.2010 at 13-18, 9.3.-11.3.2010 at 13-18, 16.3.2010 at 13-18, 18.3.2010 at 13-18, 24.3.2010 at 13-18, 7.4.2010 at 13-18, 20.4- 21.4.2010 at 13-18 (III-IV periods)
Place: Viikki C-building, course lab 144 (except 22.2-26.2.2010 in Biocenter 1, course lab 1026)
Relations to other study units: 81085 Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology (KBIOT300) lectures. Study materials and literature: Course manual and scientific articles. Evaluation: Laboratory report (pass/fail). Registration: via WebOodi. Other information: The course is given jointly by the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry and the Faculty of Biosciences.

Other biological courses can be taken from:
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences(Viikki)
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry (Viikki)

Courses in computer science, mathematics and statistics / Spring 2010

Courses listed below are suitable for MBI minor subject studies. Other courses maybe be suitable as well - discuss with your student counsellor!

58310111 Seminar:Graph Mining (3 credits)
Prof Hannu Toivonen, and Dr S Mahler, Exactum C220
Note the special timings of seminar at course webpage.

582456 Approximation Algorithms (8 credits)
Jyrki Kivinen, Exactum (III-IV periods)

582634 Data Mining (4 credits)
Dino Pedreschi, Exactum (IV period)

582635 Data Mining Project (2 credits)
Dino Pedreschi, Exactum (IV period, intensive phase)

582636 Probabilistic Modeling (4 credits)
Petri Myllymäki, Tue, Thu 16-18 Exactum B222 (III period)

582637 Project in Probabilistic Modeling (2 credits)
Hannes Wettig, Thu 16-18 Exactum (IV period)

58131 Tietorakenteet (Data Structures, lectured in Finnish) (8 credits)
Patrik Floréen, Tue, Thu 10-12 Exactum A111 (III-IV periods)
This course is for students requiring supplementary studies in computer science.

582638 Unsupervised Machine Learning (4-6 credits)
Aapo Hyvärinen, Tue, Thu, Fri 14-16 Exactum C221 (IV period)

582601 XML-tietokannat (XML Databases, lectured in Finnish) (4 credits)
Miro Lehtonen, Exactum (IV period)

T-61.5090 Image Analysis in Neuroinformatics (5 credits)
Adjunct Professor Ricardo Vigario, T-building (III-IV periods)
The goal of the seminar is to give an overview of some of the main biomedical signal processing techniques, with clear emphasis to neural data. Topics range from artifact removal and image enhancement to pattern classification and diagnostic decision.
Placement: 1st or 2nd year

Stochastic methods in physics and biology (10 credits)
University lecturer Stefan Geritz (III-IV periods)

Delay equations (10 credits)
Professor Mats Gyllenberg (III-IV periods)