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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.

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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

System Architecture for Biotechnology  (2009/2010)

Teaching code

4S01910

Teacher

Davide Quaglia

Coordinator

Davide Quaglia

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Period

2nd Semester dal Mar 1, 2010 al Jun 15, 2010.

Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

This class aims at providing the fundamental knowledge for the design, implementation, development, management, and maintenance of hardware and software systems in biotechnological labs, both for research and production, and clinical labs. Starting from actual case studies, the main related topics are highlighted; then, each of them is addresses in detail from a theoretical and practical perspective. Finally, workshops with external speakers allow to meet companies and institutions which use this knowledge.

Program

Theory
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32 hours on the following topics:

Communications among systems
- Networks
- Protocols
- Machine-to-machine
Methods and devices for data acquisition, storage, and visualization
- Acquisition, calibration and errors
- Storage formats
- Storage devices
- Data visualization
Process management
- Concurrent and sequential processes
- Synchronization
- Deadlock
- Concurrent models: pipeline and farm
- Temporal constraints
- Queue networks
- Job scheduling
High performance computing
- Parallel architectures
- Digital Signal Processors (DSP)
- Cluster
- Programming techniques
Management of laboratory hardware
- Maintenance
- Supply chain management: inputs and outputs
- Overview of job risk management
Tracking methods
- Application scenarios
- Methods: bar codes, RFID, Active wireless tags
- EPCGlobal
- Architecture of a tracking system

Laboratory
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- Tools for network analysis
- Communications through Java
- Connection of services through a middleware layer.
- Visualization tools
- Example of biotech process automation (E-Wine Project)
- Example of biotech lab automation
- Machine virtualization and Linux setup.

Examination Methods

The examination consists of:

1) written test with questions about the theory and practice part of the class
2) project
- Bibliographic research (max 2 points, max 2 people)
- Implementation (max 3 points, max 3 people)

Updated list of titles on the teacher's web page

For the project, synergies are possibles with other classes, stage and thesis.

The final result (over 30 points) is computed by summing the result of both the written test and the project.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Teaching materials e documents