Aims: To develop students' abilities to assimilate compilations of experimental data and to draw valid conclusions from them.
To introduce protein and nucleotide databases and their use.
Learning Outcomes:
After taking the course, the student should be able to:
* study a collection of biochemical observations, such as the Results Section of a publication or simply a series of related observations compiled specifically for the exercise, and assess their significance. Indications of this ability could be, eg answering particular questions or writing the Discussion section of a paper. It is especially important that the student learns to draw only such conclusions as are fully justified by the data.
* Use database search tools to explore nucleotide and protein data for relevant information.
Skills:
Learning & studying T/F/A, Written communication T/F/A, Numeracy & computation T/F/A, Problem solving T/F/A.
Content:
Several members of academic staff will participate in the Course, each providing a particular problem. This will be handed out and explained to the class, who will then have some 4 days to provide written answers. These will be marked and returned. Also sessions on bioinformatics and database searching.
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