Prospectus

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Orientation: Bioinformatics

Course
2024-2025

Admission requirements

Not applicable.

Description

This course will provide an overview of the interface between informatics and biology and will explore where the field of bioinformatics fits into science and society. You will gain experience in some of the basic principles and commonly used resources in bioinformatics and will examine recent literature.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Explain basic bioinformatics principles relating to common bioinformatics data types and formats

  • Discriminate between different bioinformatics data and analysis resources

  • Make use of public data resources to analyse sequences

  • Understand the grand challenges in bioinformatics research

  • Analyse and interpret scientific papers and social developments in the field

Timetable

In MyTimetable, you can find all course and programme schedules, allowing you to create your personal timetable. Activities for which you have enrolled via MyStudyMap will automatically appear in your timetable.

Additionally, you can easily link MyTimetable to a calendar app on your phone, and schedule changes will be automatically updated in your calendar. You can also choose to receive email notifications about schedule changes. You can enable notifications in Settings after logging in.

Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk.

Note: Joint Degree students from Leiden/Delft need to combine information from both the Leiden and Delft MyTimetables to see a complete schedule. This video explains how to do it.

Mode of Instruction

  • Lectures

  • Practical Labs

  • Practical assignments

Assessment method

There is no final exam for this course. Students will pass the course by participating in practical laboratories, attending lectures and completing three practical assignments. The assignments will examine skills in bioinformatics data analysis, bioinformatics literature interpretation, and bioinformatics in society.

The teacher will inform the students how the inspection of and follow-up discussion of the exams will take place.

Minimum grade:
First year courses require a minimum, unrounded 5.0 grade for partial exams, and a minimum, unrounded 5.5 final grade.

If a course has 2 or more written partial exams, the minimum grade only applies to the weighted average of the exams.
For partial grades from components other than exams (e.g. practicals, seminars, writing assignments), the bottom grade does apply to the individual components.

Please refer to the Student Charter for an overview of regulations.

Reading list

Links to reading material and course literature will be provided throughout the course in the lectures and on Brightspace

Registration

As a student, you are responsible for enrolling on time through MyStudyMap.

In this short video, you can see step-by-step how to enrol for courses in MyStudyMap.
Extensive information about the operation of MyStudyMap can be found here.

There are two enrolment periods per year:

  • Enrolment for the fall opens in July

  • Enrolment for the spring opens in December

See this page for more information about deadlines and enrolling for courses and exams.

Note:

  • It is mandatory to enrol for all activities of a course that you are going to follow.

  • Your enrolment is only complete when you submit your course planning in the ‘Ready for enrolment’ tab by clicking ‘Send’.

  • Not being enrolled for an exam/resit means that you are not allowed to participate in the exam/resit.

Contact

Coordinator: Katy Wolstencroft
Email: k.j.wolstencroft@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

Remarks

Software
Starting from the 2024/2025 academic year, the Faculty of Science will use the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform, you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software, your laptop must meet certain system requirements, which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.