Aims

To build up research and key skills involving literature searching skills, presentation skills, communication, time management, team working and management.

Outline Of Syllabus

Key Literature Searching skills
Research Skills
Ethical, legal and social implications of computational biology
Production of a research project plan
Experimental design

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Lectures will be used to introduce the learning material and for demonstrating the key concepts by example. Students are expected to follow-up lectures within a few days by re-reading and annotating lecture notes to aid deep learning.

Students aiming for 1st class marks are expected to widen their knowledge beyond the content of lecture notes through background reading.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The production of a research project plan will be a major component of the assessment for this module and will test the students’ ability to plan their research and understand how the project they have identified could be executed and assessed. The presentation will assess the students’ ability to effectively communicate their research plans.