Keywords
Learning outcomes
The course targets students with biological background. The objective is to gain basic understanding of fundamental concepts in computer science to facilitate interdisciplinary communication in bioinformatics. The course also provides necessary background for the follow-up courses on algorithms in bioinformatics.
Contents
The course provides an overview of the most important concepts in computer science. Basic concepts in machine architecture and data representation are explained, followed by an introduction to essential data structures and operations over them. Further, some of the fundamentals of complexity and computability are presented, together with selected topics from artificial intelligence that are of relevance to bioinformatics.
Teaching methods
| Teaching method | Contact | Online |
| Lectures | 15 h | 0 h |
Lectures, exercises and assignments.
Teaching language
EnglishModes of study
- Degree Programme Students
- Other Students
- Open University Students
- Doctoral Students
- Exchange Students
Lectures, exercises, assignments and exam.
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.Study materials
Brookshear, J. Glenn: Computer Science: An overview, 2008, ISBN: 978-0321524034;
lecture notes.
Further information
In the academic year 2014-2015 the course BIO2350 Programming and Algorithms for Bioinformatics I 6-8 ECTS will replace the courses BIO2250 Introduction to Programming 3-6 ECTS and BIO2260 Introduction to Computer Science 4 ECTS.
