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College of Sciences
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Bioinformatics Applied to Plant Biology
Level of Education
Bachelor's degree (BAC +3)
ECTS
3 credits
Training Structure
College of Sciences
Bioinformatics is a discipline at the intersection of computer science, mathematics, and the life sciences. It relies in particular on the use and development of computational tools for analyzing massive amounts of biological data. Ultimately, this big data can be organized into online, searchable databases so that users can extract data relevant to a biological problem.
The course unit “Bioinformatics Applied to Plant Biology” aims to familiarize students with the use of databases and provide an introduction to data exploration using the R software.
Virtually all instruction will take the form of practical exercises in the computer lab in small groups of students.
In the first part, students will learn the basics of the R programming language, which will enable them to organize and clean their raw data so that it can be fully utilized for subsequent analyses. Next, they will learn how to create clear graphical representations based on biological data. Particular attention will be given to writing reusable scripts and selecting appropriate graphics for the calculations based on the biological question at hand.
In the second part of the course, students will use general-purpose databases such as NCBI or those dedicated exclusively to the model plant Arabidopsis (TAIR) to conduct data mining.
Innovative Approaches in Metabolic Engineering
Level of Education
Bachelor's degree (BAC +3)
ECTS
3 credits
Training Structure
College of Sciences
In this course unit, students work in groups to conduct a literature review on a selection of medicinal plants during tutored seminars in order to identify the plant’s biomolecules that may have biological or even pharmacological properties. Using documents provided to them, each group identifies, proposes, and implements—during laboratory sessions—an extraction protocol and a simple biological activity test protocol to assess the biostatic, antibiotic, or antioxidant activity of the targeted molecules. The literature review process, the results obtained during the practical sessions, and their analysis and interpretation will be discussed during a poster presentation session, which will be evaluated.