During recent decades we have witnessed a great development of bioinformatics that has led to the accumulation of a huge amount of biological information. The Bioinformatics and computational Biology aim at dealing with this large volume of data so that biological information can be extracted, generating scientific knowledge. Handling and mining big data is currently a subject of great interest and importance.

This course aim at familiarizing the attendees with the unix environment and shell scripting. The participants will develop and implement querying algorithms in order to generate metadata for analysis.

This course can have recognition of 6 ECTs for FCUL PhD students enrolling in it as part of their first doctoral year. For FCUL PhD students only requiring 5 ECTs recognized in their specific PhD programs the last 6 hours of the course are not mandatory and the certificate will be on 'Topics in Big Data – knowledge extraction from biological databases’.

Lecturer(s) or Responsable(s): Teresa Nogueira (collaborator at cE3c)
Date: July 10th, 2017 to July 14th, 2017
Deadline for Applications: June 9th, 2017