- Introduction:
Scientific Notation, Powers, Units, Conversion between units, Amounts, Dilution, Concentrations
- Understanding equations:
Plotting simple equations, manipulating equations, extracting information
- Logarithms, exponential equations, parameter extraction
- How to write and make sense of differential equations in biology
- Data organization, handling (in excel); calculating simple statistical parameters
- Introduction to computational biology,
Basics of sequence and structure analysis;
Introduction to 'big data' analysis and genomics;
Practical approaches to BLAST and other sequence analysis tools; MSA and phylogenetic tree construction; Introduction to assesment techniques with example of ROC and MA plots
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