The course will provide an introduction to the mathematical skills and
concepts needed for modelling biological systems. Students will be
using R, an increasingly important language for data analysis for the
life sciences. For those beginning to use metabolic modelling in their
research, it will also prepare you for our core modelling course
'Computational simulation and analysis of biochemical networks'.
The key course themes are :
Descriptive Statistics and Graphics with R
Introduction to Probability
Kinetics and Ordinary Differential Equations
Statistical Inference
Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Bayesian Inference
A Biochemical Network Model
For details of Mathematics for metabolic modelling :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/maths.html
For information on our distance Masters programmes in Computational
Biology : http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html
If have any questions about the options, please contact
Heather...@manchester.ac.uk