Olga Zolotareva and Konstantinos Tzanakis
Seminar: Monday 10:00-12:00
Classroom: U10-146

In this seminar, students will choose, study and present one of the recent bioinformatic software tools published in peer-reviewed journals. The students are encouraged to suggest topics and tools of their interest or choose one of the following topics (shortlists of tools and a review article for topics will be provided):

• Biclustering
• Read Alignment
• SNP Calling
• Gene Expression Quantification
• Gene Prioritization
• Noise filtering and Baseline Correction
• Peak detection
• Peak alignment
• Metabolite identification
• Metabolomics data pre-treatment (normalization, scaling, transformation)

The participants will give oral presentations (20-45 min’s, optimally about 25 min's) and prepare short summaries (5 to 10 pages) based on original research papers. In their reports, students must (i) briefly explain the problem solved by a selected tool (ii) describe the algorithm(s) implemented in this tool (iii) explain the choice of the tool among its analogs. At the end of the course, the students will peer-review their essays and revise them based on the received feedback.

In this seminar students will develop skills necessary for:

• independent reading and understanding of scientific texts (in English)
• composition of a short written report (as a practice for the bachelor thesis)
• oral presentation
• peer-reviewing