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Bioinformatics for Molecular Biology
This is the wiki for the courses MBV-INF4410, MBV-INF9410, and MBV-INF9410A offered by the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo (UiO).
The course consists of five weeks of lectures, exercises, a take-home exam (one week), and a partial take-home exam/assignment (rougly 20 pages). The course is open also for non-UiO students. It is only necessary to be physically present in Oslo for certain parts of the course.
Ph.D. level students may opt to take the course without the partial take-home exam/assignment for only 8 study points (MBV-INF9410A). Both MBV-INF4410 (M.Sc. level) and MBV-INF9410 (Ph.D. level) are 10 study point courses.
Course description
This two week, intensive course will introduce students to bioinformatics resources and tools for molecular biology research. All the lecturers are among the top researchers working within the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology in the Oslo region. Students must bring their own lap-top for in-course demonstrations as well as for practical lab exercises. The course is mainly intended for biology students, but also for computer science students or students from other fields of science with an interest for and some experience with molecular biology. No prior background in bioinformatics or computer science is required. All students should have a basic understanding of molecular biology, at least roughly corresponding to 5-10 university study points in molecular biology, biochemistry, or similar. If you are uncertain if your biology background is strong enough, please contact Jon (See contact details below) at least three weeks before the start of the course.
Links to the web pages for the years 2009-2011 is found here. The course will in 2012 have a similar format as previous years, but with some few changes.
- New course responsible is Dr. Jon K. Lærdahl (jonkl@medisin.uio.no) from Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN) and Department of Medical Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital (OUH) - Rikshospitalet. Lærdahl is also employed by the Bioinformatics Core Facility at OUH and UiO.
- There will be some lectures focusing on the Unix shell, scripting and the Python programming language.
- Examination (home exam) and written assignment will be in a similar format as previous years.
Contacts
Jon K. Lærdahl (Course coordinator) - e-mail: jonkl@medisin.uio.no, phone: +47 99 507 335
Torill Rørtveit (Course administrator, registration) - e-mail: torill.rortveit@imbv.uio.no
Bioinformatics mailing list for the Oslo region
The mailing list for computational biology and bioinformatics in the Oslo region is cbo-all@usit.uio.no. The list has approximately 330 members. The list is used to distribute news about seminars, positions, courses, meetings and other topics that might be of interest to students and researchers with an interest in computational life science in south-eastern Norway. If you want to receive e-mails that are sent to the list, sign up here
https://sympa.uio.no/usit.uio.no/info/cbo-all
by following the link termed "Subscribe".
Useful links
Trond Hasle Amundsen's Local guide to Linux and Unix
EMBnet Quick guide Unix
UCSC Genome browser
Free UCSC Genome browser tutorial from OpenHelix
Portal to Galaxy
Galaxy 101 and other Galaxy screencasts/tutorials
The Genomic HyperBrowser