In this seminar some basic algorithms in bioinformatics are addressed.
Topics are: Basic Concepts in Molecular Biology, Pairwise Sequence
Alignment, Multiple Sequence Alignment, BLAST, Phylogenetic Tree
Reconstruction Methods (twin-session), Computer Based Gene Predictions,
Genome Rearrangements, Physical Mapping, Fragment Assembly, Microarrays
(DNA Chips).
The studends are supposed to work out and perform a approx. 35 min.
presentation to a given topic based on the given literature.
In case of problems during the preparation the students should contact
their tutor for help. Two weeks before the presentation the student has
to hand out a pre-version of the required 10 page report (a summary of
the topic in style of a scientific publication) and a pre-version of
the slides; one week before the talk the final version is required.
The report should describe and discuss the topic logically,
didactically, and structured.
Literature
will be given in the proseminar
General
goals of a proseminar:click
here (overview in German)
Language
German and English are equally admitted languages
for report, slides, and the presentations.
Layout
The layout of the report should be geard to the
template documents that can be found here.
Additionally the first page and the first slide should contain the
title of the proseminar and the presentation, the student's name and
email address and the tutor's name, and the date.
Citing and quotation
If formulations or whole sentences are taken verbally from the
references it has to be marked as a citation; this is also the case if
the reference is a www document, there the exact url and the author of
the text has to be cited.
Assessment
The quality of the presentaton and the report
will be assessed in respect of content and rhetoric, and a total grade
will be given by the tutors.
Overview on speakers, subjects,
advisors and dates of talks (preliminary overview, the order
of talks may still be changed)
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