SYSTEMS BIOLOGY - ONLINE

Prof. Patrick Meyer


Objective

The goal of this course is to give students a clear idea of what is systems biology.
Classical principles and tools will be presented in a set of five lectures (2h each).
Each lecture is followed by a practical session allowing students to learn, use and understand the tools discussed (2h each).
An additional set of hours are dedicated to interactive sessions and/or interrogations.
At the end of this course students should be able, not only to use tools and explain key concepts but also to read and understand scientific papers of the field.

Exam

  • The exam is typically hybrid, an oral part (either online or face to face) where a set of theoretical questions are asked and some additional practical exercises (on computer) that have to be performed before or after the potential oral examination.
  • Written interrogations can be performed during the year (before the exam).
  • The information for this academic year is detailed here.

Tools

Lectures

Introduction to the online course
Videos 1A on defining systems biology
Videos 1B on computer architecture		Exercises 1Solutions 1
Videos 2 on Flux Balance Analysis (FBA)Exercises FBA [PDF]Solutions FBA [PDF]
Videos 3A on inference
Videos 3B on the igraph package		Exercises 3Solutions 3
Videos 4 on network validationExercises 4Solutions 4
Videos 5A on improving inference
Videos 5B on making discoveries		Exercises 5Solutions 5

References

Questions ?

1- Forums ecampus (for every question, answers are fast)
2- Assistant (especially for server/machine issues): cf information/planning of the current year (link above)
3- Prof. Patrick Meyer (especially for the theory or the evaluation system... but answers may take some time): Patrick.Meyer@uliege