At the University of Manchester, UK, we have over 15 years experience in
teaching a range of online courses in computational biology. These
courses are at Masters level, and are designed to enable those with a
background in the life sciences, computer science, mathematics or
related disciplines to update their skills, while remaining in the
workplace. The courses are also very suitable for home study, helping
you to keep in touch with a research environment while taking a career
break.
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html
The following courses are running next semester :
Advanced Sequence Analysis (The October run of this course is
already full.)
Programming in C
Introduction to software development in Java
Computational Systems Biology
Visualisation for High Performance Computing
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/modules/index.html
The individual courses can be studied by anyone wishing to apply
computational methods in their research. Those who decide to progress
to the MSc will complete a supported research project. Previous topics
chosen for the research project range from "Genomic analysis of
Streptococcus pneumoniae" to "Modelling the response of the human
macrophage to Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Other examples of current and
completed research projects are listed here :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/projects/index.html
For further information, please visit our programme website :
http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/bioinformatics/index.html
If you have any questions, or would like advice on the options, please
contact Heather.Vincent from manchester.ac.uk
