Fundamentals of Bioinformatics

General info

Date 

Course period: September/October 2012 

Location

VU University, Amsterdam, W&N Building

Website

www.ibi.vu.nl/teaching

Keywords

Evolution, Genomes, Sequences, Biomolecular Structure, Thermodynamics, Statistics, Protein-Protein Interactions

Teacher(s)

Anton Feenstra

Heringa, Jaap Prof. dr.

Sanne Abeln

Contact(s)

Anton Feenstra

Description

Interested in Bioinformatics? Or you want to find out how biology can make an exciting application domain? Or you want to learn how what more you could do with your data, and with less effort? Enter here to start!
Fundamentals of Bioinformatics (FoB) aims to give a broad overview of important topics relevant to the field, with a focus on current open problems. Students will be made aware of these open problems during practical sessions that aim to let the student ‘stumble upon’ these problems by him/her self. Based on their background, students will be assigned to separate classes where they will be working to fill gaps in their background knowledge in programming and/or biology.