Academic Catalog

BIN590 GRADUATE SEMINAR IN BIOINFORMATICS

Course Code: 9080590
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 0(0-2)
ECTS Credit: 10.0
Department: Bioinformatics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Assoc.Prof.Dr. NURCAN TUNÇBAÐ
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

The graduate seminar will provide the students an opportunity to present advanced papers in Bioinformatics. The students will read and present papers from frontier Bioinformatics conferences, such as RECOMB, ISMB, PSB, and CSB, and from top journals such as Bioinformatics, PNAS, Science, Nature, Genome Research, and Proteins. This course will be a medium for discussing recent breakthroughs and brainstorming new research ideas. Enrolment in this course for at least two semesters will be mandatory for each graduate student enrolled in the Bioinformatics program.