More than 25 students for “Algorithms for Biological Networks”
06 Feb 2012
As part of the NBIC PhD School programme and the ASCI research school education programme, the one-week course “Algorithms for Biological Networks” was organized for the third time in Delft, January 16-20 2012.
This course introduces students to the most important aspects in representing molecular interactions as networks: distinguishing properties of biological networks, algorithms for network inference and enhancement by integrating additional knowledge, methods to execute and validate networks and finally ways of mining networks, to derive novel biological insights and hypotheses. The teaching staff of this course consisted of experts in these areas: Dick de Ridder and Marcel Reinders (Delft University of Technology), Anton Feenstra and Jaap Heringa (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Aalt-Jan van Dijk (Wageningen University and Research Centre) and Gunnar Klau (Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam).
Over 25 Dutch and Belgian PhD students and researchers attended the course, with various backgrounds, from computer science to the life sciences. This led to an interesting exchange of ideas, which students appreciated very much. An element of the course enjoyed as well as feared by participants was the paper discussion, in which small groups of participants read and discussed a recent scientific publication and prepared a short presentation on it, all within one hour.
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