From owner-announce@net.bio.net Thu Jul 01 20:41:00 1999 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Laurent Bloch Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: Course in Informatics for Biology 2000 Date: 1 Jul 1999 14:41:27 -0700 Organization: Institut Pasteur Lines: 98 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: kristoff@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <7lgna7$7un@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Course in informatics offered at the Pasteur Institute. ====================================================== In the series of courses offered at the Pasteur Institute, a course will be offered in informatics in biology. The next session will take place from the 3th of January to the 8th of April 2000. The course description is attached. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | The courses at Pasteur Institute are | | organized with the collaboration of the two largest Parisian | | scientific universities, Paris VI "Pierre et Marie Curie" and | | Paris VII "Denis Diderot". The diplomas delivered to students | | of these courses are considered as university degrees. | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration is mandatory via the committee of courses. Call the secretary of Information and Education of the Pasteur Institute at +33 1 45 68 81 40 or via E-mail at algo@pasteur.fr for further information. See also: http://www.pasteur.fr/formation/infobio-uk.html http://www.pasteur.fr/units/sis/B6/10/10.html#8 The working language of the course is French. Tuition costs: a nominal fee, approximately 3 000 French Francs (500 US Dollars). Course Description ================== Informatics in biology ---------------------- The objective of this course is to give to the researchers and future researchers in biology, an initial exposure to informatics. Entry in the course is reserved to those with a degree in biology or a related discipline. With more and more tools available to the biologist, it has become important that the biologist acquire the ability to judge for themselves the usefulness of a new software by the algorithms it employs. The accent is put on the fundamental aspect of this discipline. Two applications in biology will be studied, the analysis of sequences and molecular modeling. The theoretic aspects of informatics will be introduced: programming languages, programing, logic, and also in the technical domain of the system, the network, and computer architecture. Programming is taught according to the functional paradigm (Lisp), but other styles of programming, such as algorithmic and object oriented, will be introduced. The goal of an excellent level of theory will not hurt the acquisition of practical knowledge which will be directly usable in the labratory. The course will consist of lectures and practical sessions. Algorithms, programming practice and theory (course) 60h Algorithms and programming practical (with Scheme) 42h Programming with Java 18h Programming with Java practical 21h Computing systems: evolution and realizations 12h Introduction to Unix and X practical 17h Perspectives of informatics lecture 10h Algorithms for Biology Algorithms 36h Examples (Sequence analysis) practical 36h Molecular modelling 15h Software installation (blast) 10h Data Bases 12h Machine architecture and System planning 15h Logic 10h Networks 12h ==================================================================== Total 326h Course Instructors Laurent Bloch William Saurin Manuel Serrano Frederique Galisson Christian Queinnec Marie-France Sagot Daniel Azuelos Eric Gressier Thierry Rose Louis Jones Bernard Caudron Francoise Balmas Marc Baudoin Stephane Bortzmeyer .