The online course, Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, from The
University of Manchester, will begin again in October 2009. Like all
our distance courses it is delivered in a Virtual Learning Environment,
which allows us to extend the classroom into the web. We use a range of
tools, such as bulletin boards, chat rooms and wikis, to support our
online teaching activities.
Each course, which is paced to suit those in full-time employment, runs
over 16 teaching weeks. Teaching is focussed around tutor-supported
individual and group exercises. In this course, participants discuss a
tutorial problem for each section of the course, and then submit
solutions for feedback from the course tutor.
Week 1 Introduction to the course
Installation of software for network analysis
Weeks 2 and 3 Molecular networks in biology
Group discussion of models and modelling
Weeks 4 and 5 Standards for Systems Biology
Data sources and standards for network biology
Practical exploration of a molecular network
Weeks 6 and 7 Network properties
Practical exercise on network statistics
Weeks 8 and 9 Mapping microarray data to a network
Weeks 10 and 11 Independent work on network analysis
Weeks 12 and 13 Dynamic models
Further work on modelling formalisms
Practical exercise on a metabolic model
Weeks 14 to 16 Independent research for the second assessment
You will find further information here :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/BIOL61820.html and
the course application form is here :
https://elearn.cs.man.ac.uk/sts-tng/enrol.cgi If you have any
questions, or need advice on the other course options, please contact
Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk
