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BioInformatics applied to plant biology
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Bioinformatics is a discipline at the crossroads of computer science, mathematics and life sciences. It is based in particular on the use and development of computer tools for the analysis of massive biological data. Eventually, these megadata can be organized into searchable online databases so that a user can extract data relevant to a biological problem.
The aim of the "Bioinformatics applied to plant biology" teaching unit is to make students aware of the use of databases and to offer a first approach to data mining through the R software.
Almost all the teaching will be done in the form of practical cases in the computer room in sub-groups of students.
In the first part, students will learn the basics of the R language to organize and clean their raw data in order to make them fully exploitable for further analysis. Then, they will learn how to propose explicit graphical representations from biological data. Particular attention will be given to the writing of reusable scripts and the choice of graphs associated with the calculations according to the biological question.
In a second part, students will exploit generalist databases such as NCBI or exclusively dedicated to the model plant Arabidopsis (TAIR) to perform data mining.
Innovative approaches in metabolic engineering
Level of study
BAC +3
ECTS
3 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
In this course, students will conduct bibliographic research on a selection of medicinal plants during tutorials in order to identify the biomolecules of the plant that may have biological or pharmacological properties. Each group will use documents provided to them to identify, propose and implement an extraction protocol and a simple biological activity test protocol to test the biostatic, antibiotic or antioxidant activity of the targeted molecules. The bibliographic monitoring approach and the results obtained during the practical work, as well as their analysis and interpretation, will be discussed during a poster presentation session, which will result in an evaluation.