Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

Study Plan

A.A. 2024/2025 A.A. 2023/2024 A.A. 2022/2023 A.A. 2021/2022 A.A. 2020/2021 A.A. 2019/2020 A.A. 2018/2019 A.A. 2017/2018 A.A. 2016/2017 A.A. 2015/2016 A.A. 2013/2014 A.A. 2012/2013 A.A. 2011/2012 A.A. 2010/2011 A.A. 2009/2010 A.A. 2005/2006

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea in Bioinformatica - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

1° Year

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
C
CHIM/03
6
A
MAT/02
6
A
MAT/05
6
C
BIO/13
6
C
CHIM/06
6
A
INF/01
12
A
INF/01
6
E
-
6
A
FIS/01

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2015/2016

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
INF/01
12
C
BIO/10
12
B
ING-INF/05
6
C
BIO/18
6
A
MAT/06
12
B
INF/01

3° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Un insegnamento a scelta
6
C
BIO/04
6
C
BIO/11
6
C
FIS/07
6
C
MAT/05
6
C
BIO/09
6
C
ING-IND/25
6
C
BIO/19
6
C
BIO/10
6
C
BIO/11
6
C
MAT/08
6
C
CHIM/02
12
C
BIO/10 ,BIO/11
12
B
INF/01
Due insegnamenti a scelta
6
B
INF/01
6
B
INF/01
6
B
INF/01
6
B
INF/01
6
B
INF/01
6
B
ING-INF/05
6
B
INF/01
12
D
-
Altre attivita' formative
3
F
-
Prova finale
3
E
-
activated in the A.Y. 2015/2016
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
INF/01
12
C
BIO/10
12
B
ING-INF/05
6
C
BIO/18
6
A
MAT/06
12
B
INF/01

Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)

TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.

A Basic activities
B Characterizing activities
C Related or complementary activities
D Activities to be chosen by the student
E Final examination
F Other training activities
S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Discrete Biological Models  (2016/2017)

Teaching code

4S01908

Teacher

Vincenzo Manca

Coordinator

Vincenzo Manca

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

INF/01 - INFORMATICS

Period

II sem. dal Mar 1, 2017 al Jun 9, 2017.

Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

Acquisition of methods of discrete mathematics in the analysis of biological phenomena, with a major emphasis on the bio-molecular processes of cell.

Program

Basic notation on sequences and strings. The problems of substring and superstring. Lexicographic ordering and suffix arrays. Advanced combinatorial schemata and discrete probability. Random sequences and fundamental probability laws on them (Bernoulli, Poisson, Exponential, Gauss). Information sources and entropy. Conditional entropy, entropic divergences and mutual information. Genomes, genomic indexes, genomic dictionaries, genomic distributions and entropies. Representations and visualizations of genomes. Types of codes and genetic code. Sequence duplications and double sequences. The sequence paradox and other life paradoxes. Cellular dynamics and recurrent equations. Biological networks and their principal aspects.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Vincenzo Manca Infobiotics Springer 2013

Examination Methods

Oral exam, with a possible project.


Teaching Material

- Manca V. - Topics in discrete mathematics (Notes freely distributed at the beginning of the course, 130 pages, 2017)
- Bonnici V, Manca V - Informational laws of genome structures. Scientific Report, Volume 6, Article number 28840 doi 10.1038/srep28840, Nature Publishing Group (2016)
- Manca V. - The principles of informational genomics. Theoretical Computer Science (C), doi 10.1016/j.tcs.2017.02.0352017. Elsevier B. V. (2017)

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