UIB
Universitat de les
Illes Balears
Doctoral qualification (RD 56/2005 syllabus)
Experimental Sciences and Technologies:
Nutrigenomics and Personalised Nutrition
SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
Details
Subject
Name of subject: BIOINFORMATICS
Timetable: Spring semester
Teaching staff
Subject leaders:
Name
Research group
Tel.
Office
Dr.
Gerard Pujadas
Anguiano
Nutrigenomics (URV)
977559565
106-Faculty of
Chemistry Tarragona
E-mail
-{}-gerard.pujadas@urv.
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Other staff
Name
Research group
Tel.
Office
Dr.
Antonio Ramón
Romeo Figuerola
Nutrigenomics (URV)
977558188
104-Faculty of
Chemistry Tarragona
E-mail
-{}-antoni.romeu@urv.c
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Number of ECTS credits: 4
Type: Optional
Aims
Be aware of the technical principles of bioinformatics and be able to use them to solve problems
in the field.
Content
Content
-“Sequence Retrieval System” (SRS).
Philosophy of SRS. Biological information search in SRS. Visualisation of search results.
Connections between databases. Analytical tools in bioinformatics using SRS.
- 3D SRS.
Prediction of sequence markers of a protein structure.
List of skills:
- Ability to organise and plan activities in field of study (G1).
- Ability to apply critical, logical and creative thought in work (G2).
- Ability to incorporate scientific progress in own professional field (G3).
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Ability to work independently and use initiative (G4).
Skills and flexibility to solve problems effectively (G5).
Ability to form hypotheses and design studies for their verification (G6).
Skills to analyse data and extract conclusions from results of research (G7).
Ability to work interdisciplinarily (G8).
Ability to develop work in English (lingua franca of the discipline) (G15).
Be aware of the possibilities and limits of ICT (Information and Communication
Technologies) in the discipline (G15).
Be able to design correctly experimental studies and apply them to the fields of
nutrigenomics and molecular nutrition (E11).
Apply specific laboratory techniques related to the fields of molecular nutrition and
nutrigenomics (E14).
Be aware of progress in the fields of nutrigenomics, personalised nutrition and
molecular nutrition and acquire necessary skills to update this knowledge constantly
(E15).
Be aware of the variety of fields of knowledge which form part of the areas of
nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition (E23).
Methodology
Activities
Activities in contact hours:
- Lectures.
- Practical sessions with ICT.
- Problem solving, exercises.
- One-to-one tuition
- Practical tests.
Activities in independent study hours:
- Practical sessions with ICT.
- Problem solving, exercises.
List of methodologies and contact time:
- Introductory activities (5%).
- Practical sessions with ICT (50%).
- Completion of problems and exercises (30%).
- One-to-one tuition (10%).
- Practical tests (5%).
Learning resources:
- Use of Moodle environment to transmit content and material and as an interactive
communication tool. Debate in Moodle forum and e-mail.
- Bibliographic material (books, scientific articles, databases, etc.). Use of SRS
(http://srs.ebi.ac.uk) and 3D SRS (http://srs3d.ebi.ac.uk).
- Exercises with SRS and 3D SRS.
- Others.
Assessment criteria and instruments
- Assessment will comprise the exercises emailed by the student to the tutor at the end of each
section.
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Bibliography, resources and appendices
- http://srs.ebi.ac.uk
- http://srs3d.ebi.ac.uk
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