Studies

Relevant courses for students on Bachelor, Master and PhD level in Bioinformatics.

Educational activities around bioinformatics are coordinated by Associated Teaching Professor Lex Nederbragt from BiLS. Feel free to reach out if you have questions or suggestions!

Study direction Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

The Bachelor study program Biosciences has a study direction Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. For information about this study direction, visit the direction's webpage (information in Norwegian).

Bachelor courses at UiO involving SBI

  • IN1000 – Introduction to Object-oriented Programming (10 credits, full semester)
  • IN1900 – Introduction to Programming with Scientific Applications (10 credits, full semester)
  • BIOS1101 – Introduction to Computational Modelling in the Biosciences (10 credits, full semester)
  • BIOS3010 – Bioinformatics (10 credits, full semester)

Other relevant Bachelor courses at UiO

  • BIOS3000 – Design and analysis of biological studies

  • IN3200 – High-Performance Computing and Numerical Projects

  • IN3120 – Søketeknologi

Relevant Master's courses at UiO (co)taught with SBI

Spring semester

  • IN4030 – Introduction to Bioinformatics (10 credits, full semester)

Autumn semester

  • IN-BIOS5000 – Genome Sequencing Technologies, Assembly, Variant Calling and Statistical Genomics (NORBIS course) (10 credits, 3 weeks)
  • BIOS-IN5410 – Bioinformatics for Molecular Biology (formerly called MBV-INF4410) (10 credits, 5 weeks)

Other relevant Master's courses at UiO

Spring semester

  • IN4050 – Introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning (10 credits, full semester)
  • IN5490 – Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Systems (10 credits, one or two 1-week workshop sessions)
  • BIOS-IN5010 – Computational physiology (10 credits, summer school in Norway and USA)

Autumn semester

  • STK-IN4300 – Statistical learning methods in Data Science (10 credits, full semester)
  • IN4120 – Søketeknologi
  • IN5320 – Development in Platform Ecosystems
  • MEDFL5155 – Introduction to statistics and bioinformatics for the analysis of large-scale biological data (5 credits, 5 days)

Relevant Master's programme structure

 

Master thesis projects

PhD courses (co)taught with SBI

Spring semester

Autumn semester

  • IN-BIOS9000 – Genome Sequencing Technologies, Assembly, Variant Calling and Statistical Genomics (NORBIS course) (10 credits, 3 weeks)
  • BIOS-IN9410: Bioinformatics for Molecular Biology (formerly called MBV-INF9410) (10 credits, 5 weeks)

Other relevant PhD courses at UiO

Spring semester

  • IN9400 – Machine Learning for Image Analysis (10 credits, full semester)

  • BIO9905MERG1 – Bioinformatics for Environmental Sequencing (5 credit, every odd-numbered year)

  • BIO9905FBI2 – Phylogenomics (5 credits)

Autumn semester

  • BIOS5213 – Phylogeny and Classification (10 credit, every autumn)
  • STK-IN9300 – Statistical learning methods in Data Science (10 credits, full semester)
  • IN9495 – Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Systems (5 credits, one or two 1-week workshop sessions)
  • MF9155 – Introduction to statistics and bioinformatics for the analysis of large-scale biological data (5 credits, 5 days)

Other relevant PhD courses and workshops

BiLS organizes the yearly Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week in December. This year's edition is usually announced in October/November. See the program of past and current editions (bulleted list at left of the page).

The Carpentry@UiO initiative has introductory workshop in programming, computational analysis and data management. See also their list of past workshops.

Relevant PhD courses outside of UiO

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