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Bioinformatics

Course code

MLK7052.LT

old course code

MLK7052

Course title in Estonian

Bioinformaatika

Course title in English

Bioinformatics

ECTS credits

4.0

Assessment form

assessment

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Kairi Koort (language of instruction:Estonian)

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Introduce bioinformatics and its applications. Introduce online bioinformatics databases. Give a basic knowledge of main techniques and methods used in bioinformatics and the ability to work with biological data and conduct a simple analysis.

Brief description of the course

- Introduction to bioinformatics - past and present.
- Overview of sequencing technologies (Sanger, HTS, LRS)
- Online databases and their applications (NCBI, GenBank, UniProt, OMIM, GTEx, gnomAD, UCSC)
- Analysis of genome/exome.
- Transcriptomics and RNA-Seq data analysis
- Using bioinformatics tools via Galaxy platform (FastQC, BWA, SAMtools, etc.)
Principles of R programming language and creating plots

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has knowledge about the bioinformatics discipline and its history;
- has knowledge about the main online bioinformatics databases and their applications;
- has knowledge about the main methods and tools used in bioinformatics to analyse DNA and RNA data;
- has ability to use R to import data, analyse and visualise results.

Teacher

lektor Andreas Halman

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