[Bionews] Distance courses in Bioinformatics - registration deadline

[Heather Vincent]

The next distance courses in Bioinformatics from the University of 
Manchester and the University of Leeds, UK, begin on 8 October 2007. 
The payment deadline is Friday 21 September.

These Masters level courses follow two themes, Bioinformatics and 
Computer Science.  The Bioinformatics courses are:

Introduction to Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists
Introduction to Bioinformatics
*Bioinformatics for Systems Biology* (NEW COURSE)
Introduction to Microarray Data Analysis
Theory and Applications in Bioinformatics
The Bioinformatics of Protein Structure
The Science of Proteomics
Molecular Modelling and Structure-based Drug Design

The computing courses are:

Introduction to software development in Java
Intermediate Java
Biocomputing
Object-oriented analysis and design with UML
Introduction to Ontologies for the Biosciences

You will find further information, including fees and a link to the 
online application form, here : 
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html  If you have any 
questions, or need advice on the module options, please contact 
Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk