European Partnership

Programme

Dr Fady Mohareb

Course Director

MSc Applied Bioinformatics

f.mohareb@cranfield.ac.uk

Cranfield University

• Cranfield University is a British

postgraduate university based

on two campuses, with a

research-oriented focus.

• The main campus is at

Cranfield, Bedfordshire and the

second is the Defense

Academy of the United

Kingdom based at Shrivenham,

Oxfordshire.

Cranfield University

1 hour north of London

west of Cambridge

east of Oxford

30 mins London-Luton

Airport

10 kms Milton Keynes

20 kms Bedford

Cranfield Airport

• The main campus has its

own operational airport

(Cranfield Airport).

• The facilities at the airport

are used by Cranfield

University's own aircraft in

aerospace courses

teaching and research.

School of Applied Sciences

School of Engineering School of

Management

Defense College of Management &

Technology

Cranfield University

Key information about

Cranfield

• The only postgraduate university in Britain

• Applied science, technology & engineering

• Close links with industry

• 50% British, 50% rest of the world

• 100+ nationalities, 3000 students

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Key information about

Cranfield

• 100+ nationalities

• UK

• France

• Spain

• China

• Nigeria

• Greece

• Italy

• Poland

• Germany

• Ireland

Why Study at

Cranfield?

Excellence in teaching at last Quality

Assessment

High staff/student ratio

Industrially-relevant theses projects

Excellent job prospects

International student community

Who are we?

Internationally renowned

specialist institution.

Recruit exclusively at

Postgraduate Level.

2,860 students 12,000 cpd.

Promote strong connections

between teaching and

research.

Cranfield is one of the top

UK universities for graduate

employment.

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Cranfield Health MSc

programmes [1]

•Advanced Biosciences Programme

•Analytical Biotechnology

•Medical Diagnostics

•Molecular Medicine

•Nanomedicine

•Translational Medicine

Cranfield Health MSc

programmes [2]

•Applied Bioinformatics

•Food Chain Systems

•Health & the Environment

Applied Bioinformatics MSc

What’s the Course

About?

• Biological applications of computational techniques:

• Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics.

• Using existing tools:

• Biological databases

• Bioinformatics software tools

• Understanding the underlying maths & statistics

• Producing your own computer-based tools:

• Database design & implementation

• Programming 16

“to equip graduate scientists with the computational

understanding and expertise needed to meet the growing

international requirement to archive, analyse and

interpret data collected from biological experiments.”

Module 1

Introduction to Bioinformatics using Perl

•Module 3

Exploratory Data Analysis and Essential Statistic using R

•Module 4

•Genomics & Gene Expression

•Module 5

• Informatics for Metabolomics

•Module 6

•Proteome Informatics

•Module 2

Programming using Java

•Module 7

Data Integration and Interaction Networks

•Module 8

•Simulating Biological Systems

Course Structure

Typical Module Structure

• Lectures

• Usually ‘front loaded’ at start of module

• Practical Sessions

• In PC Rooms, with assistance from demonstrators

• Free PC time – optional session without assistance

• Assignment

• Wrap-up and feedback 18

Brief Module Introduction

Projects

• The project makes up almost half the course (in terms of both

time and marks).

• To make sure that you get the type of project you want, start

thinking about your project as soon as possible.

• We will discuss project ideas individually up until Christmas

• A list of projects will appear on the course web site in January.

This will be continually updated and you will need to have

decided on a project by the beginning of April.

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Projects – Examples from

Previous Years

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Development of software to automate

phlyogenetic workflow carried out at GSK

Meta Analysis of publically available

microarray data carried out at Unilever

Projects - Examples

from Previous Years

Next generation

genome browser

based on HTML5 and

related technologies

How it works General structure & flow

Projects - Examples

from Previous Years Development of a data

provider system using QR

codes and a smart phone

client application for the

symbiosis online research

framework

Assessment

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The pass mark for each piece of work is 50%.

The overall MSc result is either pass or fail.

Course Weighting

Taught Modules

ICP - Group Project

Thesis

Prizes

• The overall MSc result is either pass or fail, but

you do receive a module by module transcript of

your marks.

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Two prizes are awarded at graduation:

Best student

Course team prize

Previous destinations

of students

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