Module CS1020-KP05

Introduction Into Databases and Systems Biology (EinfDBSB)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2024, compulsory, life sciences
  • Bachelor Molecular Life Science 2024, compulsory, life sciences
  • Bachelor MLS 2018, compulsory, computer science
  • Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2018, compulsory, computer science
  • Bachelor MLS 2016, compulsory, computer science
  • Bachelor Biophysics 2016, compulsory, bioinformatics
  • Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2016, compulsory, computer science

Classes and lectures:

  • Introduction into databases and system biology (exercise, 1 SWS)
  • Introduction into databases and system biology (practical course, 1 SWS)
  • Introduction into databases and system biology (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 75 hours private studies
  • 45 hours in-classroom work
  • 30 hours exam preparation

Contents of teaching:

  • Entity-Relationship-Models
  • Relation algebras
  • Database systems
  • Structured query language
  • bio-databases
  • Basic terms of system biology
  • Cellular networks

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Students can create databases, manage them and create complex database queries.
  • They can explain the basic terms of system biology and classify them correctly.
  • Students know different bio-databases and can use and access them to solve problems from bioinformatics and system biology.

Grading through:

  • written exam

Responsible for this module:

Literature:

  • Edda Klipp et al. : Systems Biology - A Textbook Weinheim Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA [2016]
  • Sarah E Hunt et al. : Ensembl variation resources”, Database Volume 2018 doi.org/10.1093/database/bay119 T. Hubbard et al. The Ensembl genome database project., Nucleic Acids Research 2002 30(1):38-41.
  • Gumm, Sommer : Einführung in die Informatik 2012, De Gruyter Studium Kemper
  • Kemper, Eickler : Datenbanksysteme: Eine Einführung 2015, De Gruyter Studium

Language:

  • offered only in German

Notes:

Prerequisites for the module:
- nothing

Prerequisites for admission to the written examination:
- succesful work on the exercises

Module exam:
- CS1020-L1: Introduction into databases and system biology, written exam, 90 min, 100 % module grade

Last Updated:

21.03.2023