Course Catalog 2009-2010 Postgraduate Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Tommi Aho, Reija Autio

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 2 : Monday 10 - 12, TC303 Thursday 10 - 12, TC303	DI-Opiskelijat International Students Jatko-opiskelijat Kandiopiskelijat

Requirements

Weekly exercise and an assinment
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Learning outcomes

Student will learn basic programming skills with R. In addition, most often used packages provided by Bioconductor will be in use.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Basic programming skills with R
2.	Installation and use of Bioconductor packages

Evaluation criteria for the course

The final grade comes from the assignment work. The grade is incremented by one if weekly exercises are done.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Other online content					Material you may find useful.		English
Online book	An Introduction to R	W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith and the R development Core Team					English
Online book	Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor	Gentleman, Carey, Huber, Irizarry and Dudoit	978-0-387-25146-2				English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Additional information

Course will be lectured every other year. Course will be lectured in the academic year 2009-2010. The credits of this course can be used for replacing SGN-6156 Computational Systems Biology II.

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Student will learn basic programming skills with R. In addition, most often used packages provided by Bioconductor will be in use.	Lectures Excercises	Contact teaching: 30 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 70 %

Last modified	30.10.2009
Modifier	Tommi Aho