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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

13371 (v.3) Bioinformatics 631

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Tuition Patterns

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Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: This unit describes the organisation and analysis of molecular biological data and explores the nexus between biology and information science. Bioinformatics is a necessary discipline to exploit the large amount of rapidly accumulating raw biological data generated by the numerous genome projects currently being undertaken. It focuses on: molecular databases and genome composition; molecular evolution and sequence alignment; phylogenetic analysis and comparative genomics. Principles are illustrated by case studies.
Field of Education: 060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External