Individual Project in Bioinformatics

Knowledge:

The aim with these projects is to get a deep understanding of a bioinformatics topic often related to a research project. The exact content is decided with the supervisor.

Skills:

The student will acquire and apply these skills under supervision:

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

Competences: 

Students completing the course will be able to:

• Motivate their work, clearly present the background information, methods and results of their work, 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 orally.
• 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.