From Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk  Sun Aug 23 02:47:31 2009
From: Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk (Heather Vincent)
Date: Sun Aug 23 12:40:29 2009
Subject: [Bio-matrix] Bioinformatics for Systems Biology, October 2009
Message-ID: <4A90F413.2030604@manchester.ac.uk>

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 and learning are 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@manchester.ac.uk