Study Programmes 2015-2016
BIOL2023-2  
Bio-informatics
Duration :
18h Th, 6h Pr
Number of credits :
Master in bioengineering : chemistry and bio-industries (120 ECTS)2
Lecturer :
Laurence Lins
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
-analysis of the amino acid composition of proteins -hydrophobicity analysis -data banks -homology search -sequence alignments -detection of functional motifs -prediction of secondary structures -prediction of three-dimensional structures
Learning outcomes of the course :
Overview of the various methods for the analysis of protein sequences and practical applications. After completing the course the student should be able to choose the proper methods of genomic/proteic analysis.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
Organic chemistry, chemical structure of amino-acids, primary and secondary structures of proteins.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
learning session for the use of free access softwares for prediction of protein structure
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Lectures : 18h learning sessions: 6h
Recommended or required readings :
- Bioinformatics basics: Applications in biological science and medicine, L. Buehler and H. Rashidi, 2d edition, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 2005 -La bioinformatique pour les nuls
Assessment methods and criteria :
Personal report (100%)
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
nihil
Contacts :
Lins, Laurence (Maître de recherche FNRS) Center for Numerical Molecular Biophysics 081 62 25 21 l.lins.@ulg.ac.be