Bioinformatics Major
Master 2 courses
1st Semester
Shared courses
Organisation: Lectures (12h)
Lecturers: Bianca Habermann, Laurent Tichit
Evaluation: project and continuous monitoring
Scientific seminars constitute a good way to broaden your scientific horizon. In this regard, MSc students will frequently attend CENTURI seminars. At the end of the semester, students will be asked to write a summary of two seminars they have attended.
The students will learn to work in an interdisciplinary group, to deepen a subject and to communicate on it.
Organisation: Lectures (10h), TD (8h), TP (12h)
Lecturers: Claudio Rivera Baeza
Evaluation: final exam, projects and oral presentation
This lecture is composed of studies on different articles, tutorial sessions to assimilate the concepts and practical work to implement the concepts on concrete cases.
The aim of this course is to present the analysis of interaction networks in biology. The courses/TD focus on the construction and interpretation of static networks "at large
scale", e.g. protein-protein interaction networks. And on dynamic networks, modelled by different mathematical formalisms, which make it possible to simulate, for example, genetic regulation.
Organisation: Lectures (6h), TD (6h), TD (6h)
Evaluation: project and continuous monitoring
Students are asked to pick 2 of the 3 following optional courses:
- Developmental Biology
- Immunology
- Neurobiology
Organisation: Project during the semester
Evaluation: project
Internship in a research laboratory practicing interdisciplinary studies.
Organisation: Lectures (6h), TD (6h), TP (6h)
Lecturers: Pierre Pudlo
Evaluation: continuous exam and projects
This course focus on inferential statistics.
The lectures will propose a summary of the basic concepts, which will be applied in exercises (TD), practical work on computers (TP) and personal assignments (R programming project). Introduction to inferential statistics.
Bioinformatics courses
Organisation: Lectures (6h), TD (6h), TD (6h)
Evaluation: project and continuous monitoring
Students are asked to pick the 3rd options of the following optional courses (see 1st semester):
- Developmental Biology
- Immunology
- Neurobiology
Organisation: Lectures (6h), TD (6h), TP (6h)
Lecturers: Jacques van Helden
Evaluation: continuous exam
The lecture focus on:
- Review of the different biological databases, their data, their context of use.
- Practical work allowing data recovery (web, REST API, biopython, bioconductor, ...)
This course is based on a balance of lectures, tutorials and practical work in order to deepen the knowledge of the various biological databases, their contents, possible biases in the data contained, and different methods of data retrieval.
Organisation: Lectures (6h), TD (6h), TP (6h)
Lecturers: Michael Kopp
Evaluation: final exam and projects
Study of examples of biological problems with mathematical tools. The EU will focus on the example of population genetics, which uses the theory of dynamic systems and stochastic processes to model the evolution of the genetic composition of a population, through processes of mutation, selection, recombination, migration and genetic drift. These models then form a basis for DNA sequence analysis and allow hypotheses about the history of natural populations to be tested.