Bioinformatics and computational biology

The course aims to illustrate how computer science principles, technologies, methods and instruments can be profitably used for the computational analysis, information content increment and interpretation of biological data produced by genome sequencing, gene expression measurements and proteomics. It will be highlighted as the application to biological data of the engineering themes of data bases, information theory, data and text mining and others can contribute to increasing biomedical knowledge and improving health care.

Students will develop biological, bioinformatics and computational skills to manage and process bio-medical-molecular data and knowledge, as well as they will acquire knowledge of the instruments needed to tackle various issues in computational biology; this will make the students able to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the increasing bioinformatics development and relevance.