This is one of the bioinformatics courses offered by the Oxford Bioinformatics Programme that can also be used as credit towards a postgraduate qualification in software engineering. You can register for this course at the Bioinformatics Programme's own website.

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Objectives

Systems Biology is the fastest-growing research area in the biological sciences. This course looks at post-genomic biology, from data integration to the application of computational and mathematical models of biological systems.

Contents

This course will help participants to:

• Understand the development of new experimental techniques that have been developed post-genome to perform systems biology.
• Construct connections between the different -omic datasets and between datasets from different experimental techniques.
• Analyse and evaluate biological datasets to determine which data are important for model construction.
• Apply appropriate mathematical techniques to systems model building.
• Evaluate the predictive power of the computational and mathematical models.
• Use the models to suggest new experiments.