R. Sanges, 35 hours
Theoretical lectures
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Cells, genomes, genes and the Central Dogma
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The definition of an eukariotic gene is an evolving concept
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Transcription, transposons, non-coding and the evolution of organismal complexity
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Bioinformatics databases and tools
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Simple sequences handling and mining using public web databases and tools
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Good practices for experimental design
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Transcriptome mining and meta analysis with gene expression data
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Transposons and the brain
Practical sessions
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R for dummies
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Variables: scalars, vectors, lists, matrices, data-frames, operators
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Data exploration and selection: operators and operations, distributions, correlations, boxplots, histograms, xyplots, subsetting, filtering, t-test, multiple hypothesis testing, p-value correction and false discovery rate
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Input/output: text file import, data-frame export, chart export
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Extracting and analyzing molecular data using genome browsers and public genomic databases and tools