Online courses in computational biology

[Heather Vincent]

As the genomics, and now the epigenomics, revolutions open up whole new
areas of research, biologists have access to huge amounts of data from
transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics. At the same time medicine
is involved in the largest and most ambitious IT project in the world –
the capture and interpretation of electronic patient records. This
information will make health care much more effective by making it
easier to spot new diseases early - whilst they can still be contained
and controlled.

At the heart of these developments are data and knowledge – and a real
need and demand for the skills and techniques that computational methods
can bring these problem areas. Biology and healthcare now provide some
of the fastest growing and most challenging areas in which biologists
and computer scientists must work together to apply their skills.

Our courses in Digital Biology will help you to develop the core skills
needed to work in these new areas. You may begin by taking individual
units, and then decide whether to progress to complete a formal
qualification by distance learning.

The courses beginning in February 2013 are :

• Introduction to BioHealth Informatics
• Mathematics for metabolic modelling
• Introduction to software development in Java
• Databases and Modelling
• Object-oriented analysis and design with UML

For further details of the Masters programme in Digital Biology, please
visit our website : http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html