Teaching code

4S008227

Credits

12

Coordinator

Carlo Combi

Language

Italian

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at providing the theoretical and applicative basis of tools and techniques for the management and the retrieval of biological data; in particular the course is focused on topics linked to Pattern Recognition and Databases. The course comprises two modules as detailed below.

Module Basi di dati per Bioinformatica: This module has the aim to provide the students with the necessary concepts and methods for the design of a database and its applications, with an emphasis on the management of bioinformatics data. In particular, it will be focused on the methodologies for the conceptual and logical design of a database and for the successive database implementation on database systems. At the end of the course, the students will be able to understand how a database management system works and they will know how to: (i) design and implement relational databases; (ii) query relational databases.
Module Riconoscimento e recupero dell’informazione per Bioinformatica: This module is aimed at providing the theoretical and applicative bases of Pattern Recognition, a class of automatic method-ologies used to recognize and recover information from biological data. In particular, during the course the main techniques of this area will be presented and discussed, in particular linked to representation, classification, clustering and validation. The focus is more on the description of the employed methodologies rather than on the details of applicative programs (already seen in other courses). After attending the course, the students will be able to analyse a biological problem from a Pattern Recognition perspective; they will also have the skills needed to invent, develop and implement the different components of a Pattern Recognition System.

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