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Two tracks: Technology and Application

Two tracks form the basis of the NBIC PhD School programme: a Technology track and an Application track. The courses in the Technology track focus on principles, methodology and theoretical background. Topics in this track include machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics and optimisation techniques. The Application track puts the emphasis on the application of these technologies in bioinformatics research and deals with topics such as comparative genomics, networks bioinformatics, analysis of HTP sequence data and computational modelling.

Bridging the gap: crash courses

Next to the two tracks, crash courses will be offered aimed at bringing life sciences researchers up to speed with (bio)informatics and, vice versa, introduce (bio)informaticians to molecular biology. Furthermore, the programme includes a number of introductory courses on specific technologies – e.g. grid computing, next generation sequencing – that are relevant to a broad audience within the computational biology field.