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Postgraduate Course: Bioinformatics and Study Design in Infectious Diseases (BIME11124)

This course will be closed from 31 July 2022

Course Outline
SchoolDeanery of Biomedical Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course aims to provide the ability to use modern bioinformatic tools, sources and databases for experimental and study design as well as data analysis for laboratory and field in infectious diseases.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Printing own course materials
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate understanding of research methods, study design (experimental and theoretical) and execution.
  2. Develop knowledge in research governance including ethical approval and standards of Good Clinical Practice.
  3. Explain and carry out the necessary steps to take biomedical research data from unprocessed data to generating and evaluating biomedical hypotheses, including data handling, processing, statistical analysis, explorative analysis and interpretation.
  4. Disseminate research findings to publication standard (e.g. case report, literature review)
  5. Critically appraise publications in terms of study design and data analysis in the field of infectious diseases.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsexperimental design,bioinformatics,study design,data handling,statistics,pathway analysis
Contacts
Course organiserDr Medhat Khattar
Tel: 0131 242 9437
Email: Medhat.Khattar@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Charlie Evans
Tel: (0131 6)51 5470
Email: cevans3@exseed.ed.ac.uk
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