This is an archived syllabus from 2013-2014
COMP60532 Principles of Digital Biology syllabus 2013-2014
COMP60532 Principles of Digital Biology
Level 6
Credits: 15
Enrolled students: 29
Course leader: Andrew Brass
Additional staff: view all staff
Assessment methods
- 100% Written exam
| Semester | Event | Location | Day | Time | Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sem 2 P3 | Lecture | 2.15 | Thu | 09:00 - 09:00 | - |
- Biohealth Informatics
- Computer Science units for ACSwITM students (semester 2)
Overview
Biology is currently undergoing a revolution. The success of the human genome project and other high-throughput technologies is creating a flood of new data. Capturing, interpreting and analysing this data provides real and significant challenges for computer scientists. This course will use biology as an exciting application domain for a wide range of CS techniques that have been developed on the course.
The course is organised in 4 sections:
- basic introduction to modern biology and bioinformatics
- data capture
- data delivery
- data analysis
Each section will commence with a short taught component delivered as research seminars. Assessments will be based on a short written report and presentations based on a case study that will be introduced at the start of the course.
Syllabus
- Intro to Biology
- Intro to Biology - the central dogma (2 hours)
- Intro to genomics (2 hours)
- Biology databases (2 hours)
- Data capture
- Capturing microarray data (1 hour)
- Proteomics seminar (1 hour)
- The gene ontology (1 hour)
- Resource meta-data (1 hour)
- Data delivery
- HCI and bioinformatics (2 hours)
- Dealing with heterogeneous, distributed data. (2 hours)
- Bioinformatics and the grid (2 hours)
- Data analysis
- Integrated approaches to post-genome data (2 hours)
Teaching methods
Lectures
1 day per week (5 weeks)
Feedback methods
Students work on a group based project exploring the application of computer science to an industrially focussed digital biology problem. Every day each group reports back to the class on the work they have completed. Tutors provide detailed formative feedback after each of these presentations. The final assessment is an individual report based on the group work. Detailed individual feedback will be provided on short report plans before the final report is completed.Study hours
- Lectures (35 hours)
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- Group/team working
- Innovation/creativity
- Leadership
- Project management
- Oral communication
- Problem solving
- Research
- Written communication
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, a student will be able to:
Learning outcomes are detailed on the COMP60532 course unit syllabus page on the School of Computer Science's website for current students.
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Course unit materials
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