This course aims to provide students with:

• a general background in post-genome biology, with a focus on bioinformatics;
• practical knowledge of the Perl programming language, which will be acquired through applications in bioinformatics.

• Background in post-genome biology.
• Introduction to bioinformatics, selected classics.
• Presentation (and how to make use) of the major sources of biological data: proteins (Uniprot), biomolecular interactions (Intact etc...), functional annotation (Gene Ontology),...
• Perl [for bioinformatics].
• Using a "Biology-Oriented" OODBMS (acedb).
• Analysing biological networks.

None.

session 1: project.
session 2: oral.

N1 = P
N2 = O