tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69024688726896192992024-09-21T02:57:56.253-07:00Bioinformatics courses in UKSirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09365202826582250905noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6902468872689619299.post-1579150660419039652009-11-14T01:36:00.000-08:002009-11-22T08:25:32.617-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"></span><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Bioinformatics</span></b></a> is a descipline of biological science that deals with application of information technology tools to the field of molecular biology. Most popular software tools used in Bioinformatics are perl, python (especially R), mysQl, c, c++, java, Matlab. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST"><span style="color: #660000;">BLAST</span></a><span style="color: #660000;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTA"><span style="color: #660000;">FASTA</span></a> are most popular algorithms used in computational biology.<br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Following are some of the options available for graduate students to study Bioinformatics in UK.</span><br /> <br /> </span><br /> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Bioinformatics full time courses in UK along with links</b>. Timesonline 2010 UK university rankings are provided in brackets.</span></span></span><br /> <ol><li><a href="http://bioinfomsc.stats.ox.ac.uk/courses/index.html"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of Oxford offers a variety of Bioinformatics and systems biology courses which can lead you to M.Sc or diploma</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (1)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Education/MPhil/"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Cambridge computational biology institute (CCBI) offers 11 month Mphil programme in Computational biology</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (2)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://www.bioinformatics.ic.ac.uk/bio_mscphd.html"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Imperial college london offers M.Sc/Phd in bioinformatics</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (3)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/bioinformatics/"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of Exeter offers M.Sc in bioinformatics</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (9)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://bioinfmsc.bio.ed.ac.uk/"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of Edinburgh M.Sc or PgDip courses</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (14)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of Glasgow Bioinformatics courses</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (19)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taughtdegrees/courses/bysubject/course/?code=02129"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of Manchestor offers M.sc as well as M.phil in bioinformatics courses</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (24)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://bbu.cf.ac.uk/html/training/msc.htm"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Cardiff University Bioinformatics courses</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (26)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/coursefinder/12228/MRes_Bioinformatics_and_Computational_Biology"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of Leeds Mres in Bioinformatics</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (27)</span></em></li> <li><a href="http://www.uea.ac.uk/bio/bioinformatics"><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of East Anglia M.Sc in Computation Biology</span></em></a><em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> (28)</span></em></li> </ol><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">For more options you can always visit </span><a href="http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearning/UniversityAndHigherEducation/DecidingWhereToStudy/DG_4017740"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">directgov education website</span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">.</span><br /> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman';"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></span><br /> <span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">Bioinformatics part time and distance learning options</span><br /> <ol><li><a href="http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/results.php?Subject=Bioinformatics"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of Oxford part time courses</span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">(1)</span></li> <li><a href="http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/distancelearning/bioinformaticsmodules/"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">University of Manchester distance learning courses in computational biology</span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">(24)</span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://bioinf.uta.fi/courses/presentation/"><span style="color: #660000;">University</span> <span style="color: #660000;">of</span> <span style="color: #660000;">Tampere</span> <span style="color: #660000;">Finland</span> <span style="color: #660000;">Bioinformatics</span> <span style="color: #660000;">distance</span> <span style="color: #660000;">learning</span> <span style="color: #660000;">courses</span></a></span></li> </ol><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><b>Online learning resources</b></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">A good grip of software tools is essential for progressing with any of university courses listed above. So it is always better to get a hang of following tools before starting the courses to keep up to pace with other students.</span><br /> <br /> </span><br /> <ol><li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://elcapitan.ucsd.edu/bild94/"><span style="color: #660000;">Introduction</span> <span style="color: #660000;">to</span> <span style="color: #660000;">bioinformatics</span></a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education/index.html"><span style="color: #660000;">NCBI</span> <span style="color: #660000;">bioinformatics</span> <span style="color: #660000;">tutorials</span></a></span></li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=78280D6BE6F05D34"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">You tube C Programming tutorials</span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> just introduce you to programming. It is recommended to follow exact syntax in C programming language by K &amp; R.</span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.horstmann.com/"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';">O</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.horstmann.com/"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';">bject oriented analysis and design by cay </span></span></a></span><i><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.horstmann.com/"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';">horstmann</span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-style: normal;">:</span><strong> </strong></span></i></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span style="font-size: 130%;">Object oriented programming is totally different aimed at extensible and easily maintainable systems (systems that undergo constant enhancements and modifications). As such its better to learn design patterns and object oriented analysis and design concepts here. So follow concepts in the text book<b><i>.</i></b></span></span></span></li> <li><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Sun Java tutorial</span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> pay more attention to Swing, JDBC, RMI and Beans.</span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">You tube </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A68C1F33757B4A38&amp;page=1"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">C++ tutorial</span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> and </span><a href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">C++ STL guide</span></a></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Main_Page"><span style="color: #660000;">Bioperl</span></a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.math.ilstu.edu/dhkim/Rstuff/Rtutor.html"><span style="color: #660000;">Statistical</span> <span style="color: #660000;">computing</span> <span style="color: #660000;">with</span> <span style="color: #660000;">R:</span> <span style="color: #660000;">tutorial</span></a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.math.ufl.edu/help/matlab-tutorial/"><span style="color: #660000;">Matlab</span> <span style="color: #660000;">tutorial</span></a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.avatar.se/molbioinfo2001/dynprog/dynamic.html"><span style="color: #660000;">Dynamic</span> <span style="color: #660000;">programming</span></a></span></li> </ol><br /> <span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><strong>Bioinformatics algorithm resources</strong></span><br /> <span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">Can be used during university course to enhance your understanding.</span><br /> </span><br /> <ol><li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~cs236522/"><span style="color: #660000;">Computational</span> <span style="color: #660000;">biology</span> <span style="color: #660000;">algorithms</span></a></span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~rshamir/algmb/01/algmb01.html"><span style="color: #660000;">Molecular</span> <span style="color: #660000;">biology</span> <span style="color: #660000;">algorithms</span></a></span></li> </ol><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><strong>Miscellaneous</strong></span><br /> <br /> </span><br /> <ol><li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C491D873C4791916&amp;search_query=bioinformatics"><span style="color: #660000;">Videos</span> <span style="color: #660000;">on</span> <span style="color: #660000;">Molecular</span> <span style="color: #660000;">biology</span> <span style="color: #660000;">basics</span></a></span></li> <li><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gbench/"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">NCBI work bench </span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">to view and analyse publicly available sequence databases at NCBI along with your own private data.</span></li> <li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"><a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/evideos/index.html"><span style="color: #660000;">EBI</span> <span style="color: #660000;">video</span> <span style="color: #660000;">tutorials</span></a></span></li> <li><a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/home.html"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;">EBI bioinformatic tutorials</span></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span></li> </ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5335420196196440"; /* 300x250, created 14/11/09 */ google_ad_slot = "3964365921"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>Sirihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09365202826582250905noreply@blogger.com