Individual Project in Bioinformatics

The aim of these projects is to get deeply into a bioinformatics topic, often related to a research project. This is often used as a warm-up for the Master’s project.

Students completing the course will be able to:

• motivate their work, clearly present the background information, methods and results of the work without errors, discuss the implications of the results and draw scientifically sound conclusions based on the work.
• search for relevant literature and understand the relevant parts.
• write a project in a scientifically precise way with adequate references.
• present the work.
• answer questions about any part of the project in reasonable depth and explain the core methods and results of the project in great detail.
• put the work in context and discuss possible future directions of research in the area and judge the relevance of such work.
   

Knowledge:

The aim with these projects is to get a deep understanding of a bioinformatics topic often related to a research project. This is often used as a warm-up for the Master’s project. The exact content is decided with the supervisor.

Skills:

• Write a bioinformatics report
• Search for background material
• Select and use relevant bioinformatics tools for a specific project

Competences:

The student will obtain these general competences:

• Ability to do project work
• Writing a scientific report
• Analyze complex real-world problems